--- title: "Edinburgh: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours" canonical: "https://openvibe.tours/routes/rte_BPTQCSY78ARY7AA5CR80XZ0ZWC" updated: null --- # Edinburgh: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours HTML: [Edinburgh: a self-guided walk · OpenVibe.Tours](https://openvibe.tours/routes/rte_BPTQCSY78ARY7AA5CR80XZ0ZWC) Self-guided route · generated from Wikivoyage # Edinburgh: a self-guided walk Generated from Wikivoyage's See list for Edinburgh: 7 stops, about 0.7 km and 44 minutes on foot. Not a guided tour; check each place before you go. 7 stops · 682 m · about 44 min on foot · [Wikivoyage source](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · fetched 2026-11-07 02:09:51 UTC. Not a guided tour: check each place before you go. 7 stops on the map. [© OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), ODbL 1.0 1. ## Old Calton Cemetery Atmospheric Georgian graves, memorials, and funerary ornaments. Memorials include those to the philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), to the Scots who died in the American Civil War, and to the Martyrs of Reform imprisoned or transported for sedition in the 1790s for calling for the right to vote. 55.95360, -3.18620 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9536&mlon=-3.1862#map=17/55.9536/-3.1862) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_87S9CTH6ESHAF1SVTAPH7ZE4ZE) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 2. ## Fruitmarket Gallery of contemporary art, refurbished in 2018. From 1936 to the 1970s this was where soft fruit and veg were traded, handy for the trains and delivery vans. 55.95139, -3.18889 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.951389&mlon=-3.188889#map=17/55.951389/-3.188889) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_MMX4XYGX3RC5NERBA7R6XZ1T8P) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 3. ## City Art Centre Four-floor gallery run by the city council. They rotate artwork from their extensive Scottish collection and have changing exhibitions. 55.95090, -3.18930 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9509&mlon=-3.1893#map=17/55.9509/-3.1893) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_MMX4XYGX3RC5NERBA7R6XZ1T8P) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 4. ## Stills Photography gallery with three exhibitions a year. They also support photographers through courses and hire of equipment, darkroom and digital lab. 55.95070, -3.19030 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9507&mlon=-3.1903#map=17/55.9507/-3.1903) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_MMX4XYGX3RC5NERBA7R6XZ1T8P) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 5. ## Mary King's Close Mary King (1590-1644) was a clothes merchant and city burgess. She died the year before plague struck and carried off the rest of her family. In 1753 Royal Exchange, now City Chambers, was built over several closes by demolishing their upper storeys, while the lower storeys were used for storage then later blocked off. This means a warren of medieval alleys and low dwellings has been preserved, re-opened in 2003 and visited by guided tour. Almost as weighty as the Exchange is the mass of ghost stories piled on top of the close, woo-ooh! - but the real history is fascinating enough. Book ahead 55.95011, -3.19069 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.95011&mlon=-3.19069#map=17/55.95011/-3.19069) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_T70C36AV7YEFYSHZMCMCG5NVGC) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 6. ## St Giles It's often called a Cathedral, but the Church of Scotland brooks no such episcopal entity, and Charles I dubbing it "cathedral" in 1633 was one reason his head was chopped off. Safer to call it "High Kirk", though they're nowadays lenient with first time offenders. The present building is from 14th century with much Victorian Gothic, notably its crowned spire. Highlight is the Chapel of the Order of the Thistle, Scotland's chivalric company of royal knights. Services are M-F at noon and 9:30AM and 11AM on Sunday, with choral music at 6PM. 55.94940, -3.19090 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9494&mlon=-3.1909#map=17/55.9494/-3.1909) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_EAM196EDR2F562AKDXDN6207VG) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. 7. ## National Library of Scotland A venerable reference library, which you need membership to access, but it has public exhibitions about literature. "Treasures" is its permanent exhibition. But don't stumble in here mistaking it for Central Library across the street. 55.94860, -3.19190 · [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=55.9486&mlon=-3.1919#map=17/55.9486/-3.1919) · [Wikivoyage note](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Edinburgh) · [place page](/place/plc_XXA3WDGH018DMYJN0EVDMK9N8S) Audio: not available — OpenVibe.AI has no speech-synthesis API today. ## Use this route [Sign in](/auth/login?next=%2Froutes%2Frte_BPTQCSY78ARY7AA5CR80XZ0ZWC) to add this route to a trip. Notes and the ordering come from Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0; coordinates and map data from OpenStreetMap, ODbL. The route drawing is generated, not a guide's promise.