The Royal Mile

In the capital of Scotland, Edinburgh city has known a series of beautiful street called the Royal Mile. Branch streets begins at Edinburgh Castle and reaches Holyrood Palace, its length is approximately one mile Scottish.
Royal Mile was created back in the 12th century. Later, after the Anglo-Scottish conflict burned wooden houses streets were built of stone. Over time, the Royal Mile area expanded and ennobling.
In general, Mile consists of four main streets - Castlehill, High Street and Canongate Lonmarket. Diverges from them many small alleys and dead. At Castlehill can visit the museum "camera obscura and world of illusions." It is also the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre.
High Street is the center of social life. On the street is always a lot of tourists, because there is something to see. Among the famous old buildings - the Parliament building and the Cathedral of St. Giles. To interesting places on the High Street include the Museum of Childhood, and the house-museum of religious reformer John Knox.
Street Lonmarket full Scottish products and souvenirs, here in the Middle Ages traded cloth. Strolling through the Canongate, you can visit the Museum of folk stories, as well as unusual for medieval architecture Scotland Kenongeytskuyu church.
The Royal Mile is the hallmark of Edinburgh, its main tourist center. At its most beautiful streets of the centuries-old house, filled with history, merge with the rhythm of modern life.