Excursions in Edinburgh

You certain know Edinburgh as the birthplace of Fringe — the world's largest art festival. However, guides will introduce to you the Scottish capital as "North Athens". A tour to the Edinburgh Castle - a former prison, and now a military museum - will impress not only a connoisseur of antiquities.

The Gothic monument to Walter Scott will also become fixed firmly in your memory. Catching views immortalizing in the film "Cloud Atlas" are open from the 60-meter height of its spire. You can also view main sights of the city, including the University of Edinburgh and Grassmarket, from the Victorian pinhole camera or the top of the extinct Arthur's Seat volcano (250 m).

To get a taste of Scotland, you should go with a guide to one of Edinburgh bars or the Whiskey Museum. You can get a strong emotional charge in Cameo, Quentin Tarantino’s favorite cinema, or in the Summerhall multi-art centre, where exhibitions, theatrical performances, concerts, lectures, and master classes await you. Adherents of adrenaline buzz are offered “haunted tours", initiating in dark secrets of the metropolis.