Architecture Tour of Edinburgh New Town

Itinerary
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Stop At: H M General Register House 2 Princes Street, Edinburgh EH1 3YY Scotland

The Edinburgh New Town tour will start near Register House that Robert Adam designed to set the tone for the further development of the splendid New Town.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: St Andrew Square, George Street, Edinburgh Scotland

The group will discover the principles behind the masterplan of the New Town, designed to chime with the Enlightenment ideas in a graphical form, as well as glorify the union between Scotland and England.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: West end of George Street 40 Charlotte Square, Edinburgh EH2 4HQ Scotland

Once in Charlotte square, the group will admire Robert Adam’s magnificent palatial façades, which will help us discover the origins of ubiquitous classical details such as Corinthian capitals, bucrania, and sphinxes.

Here we will also find the elegant original ironwork such as street lights, railings, and boot scrapers.

Duration: 15 minutes