Despite the continuing excesses of the Planners, Edinburgh remains one of
the world's top cities for architecture. It has everything from
medieval, the old town, neo-classical, the so-called New Town and Art Deco.
It even has a few decent modern buildings, although there are some truly
execrable bits of 1960's and 1970's stuff which rather spoil the overall
impression. Of course,
there are also excellent museums and art galleries (mostly free) as well as
culture till it comes out of your ears during the annual International
Festival. The sort of city it would be
ideal to live in, if only it were not so miserably cold for most of the year. |