The best city hikes and walks around Morningside

An excellent base for visiting Scotland's mystical capital city.

A lively place, with good pubs...

popular place with many restaurants and a great view of Edinburgh 😀

The building was designed in the Gothic Revival style and was a collaboration between Scottish architect James Gillespie Graham and English architect Augustus Pugin. Constructed from dark sandstone, it appears older than its actual age; it was built between 1842 and 1845. Its spire is the highest point in Edinburgh, at 72 meters. Previously a Church of Scotland building, it remains one of Edinburgh's most distinctive buildings, with its silhouette visible from across the Old Town. Despite its appearance and name, it was never consecrated as a church, as it last met here in 1929, when it moved to a new Assembly Hall located on the Mound. The building was then used by various congregations until 1979, when it merged with Greyfriars Kirk and closed. It was converted and reopened as The Hub in 1999. https://cityexplorerstours.com/edinburgh-travel-guide/the-hub

Tolbooth Kirk (The Hub) This spectacular Edinburgh landmark was the Assembly Hall for the Church of Scotland. It is situated on the Royal Mile just below the castle. The church fell into disuse in the 1980s and was restored in the late 20th century by restorers who combined traditional Victorian features with bold contemporary features to create The Hub. The Edinburgh International Festival now uses it as a central ticket office and as a venue for concerts and events. There is also a café inside. The Hub is also used for festivals, cultural events, conferences and weddings.

The legend of Bobby touched the heart of Baroness Angelia Georgina Burdett-Coutts. She was the daughter of banker Thomas Coutts (of Coutts Bank fame) and inherited £1.8 million on the death of her grandfather, making her one of the richest women in England. Burdett-Coutts spent much of her fortune on philanthropic causes. She co-designed Urania Cottage for the "fallen young women" with Charles Dickens and became a pioneer of social housing. The Baroness obtained permission from Edinburgh Council to erect a statue of Bobby at the junction of Candlemakers Row and George IV Bridge, just outside Greyfriars Kirkyard. Artist William Brodie was commissioned to create the statue in 1872. Since its unveiling, the statue of Bobby has become a major Edinburgh landmark. https://www.scottishtours.co.uk/blog/the-true-story-of-greyfriars-bobby/

The legend of Bobby is that it belonged to a man called John Grey, a night watchman in Edinburgh who patrolled the Old Town every night with his dog for company. When John Grey died, he was buried in Greyfriars Cemetery, and the story goes that his dog Bobby spent every night for the next 14 years sleeping on his master’s grave. https://www.edinburghexpert.com/blog/edinburghs-local-heroes-greyfriars-bobby

An important place on the world list of dog monuments is occupied by the small but quite famous Greyfriars Bobby monument in Edinburgh. This dog is supposedly the smallest officially protected immovable monument in the capital of Scotland. Greyfriars Bobby, because that is the name of this dog, was supposed to exist in reality. This Skye Terrier gained fame thanks to Eleanor Atkinson's book "Bobik od franciszkanów". Even more fame was added by the 1961 Disney film: "Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog". https://www.wycieczkazadyche.pl/2020/03/greyfriars-bobby-piesek-szczescia-z.html