num_pages: 736
description: The historic capital of Scotland is well known as a fortified medieval city with castle and crown-steepled church, its Royal Mile leading down to the Abbey and Palace of Holyrood; as a merchant city of the Stuart period with Parliament House and closely built houses and tenements; as a Georgian town with the largest sequence of planned developments in Britain; as a Victorian town of churches and banks, hotels and pubs, of quiet surburbs; and as a twentieth-century city where the Festival and its Fringe have encouraged the rediscovery of old buildings and the planning of new ones. A comprehensive gazetteer is provided to all notable developments of central Edinburgh, the seaport town of Leith and the suburban neighbourhoods.
language: English
title: Edinburgh
titlecomplete: Edinburgh (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland)
genres: Scotland
ratings_count: 6
places: Edinburgh, Scotland
series: Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Scotland
publisher: Yale University Press