Plan a visit
Art walks
Self-guided trails that string together a city's public art into an afternoon on foot. Follow the route on the map, stop by stop.
Edinburgh
A short, steep climb to Edinburgh's open-air acropolis. Start among the radicals in Old Calton Burial Ground with Lincoln's Scottish-American memorial, then take in the Burns Monument before the summit set pieces: Dugald Stewart's rotunda, the Nelson Monument and the famously unfinished National Monument — with the best panorama in the city thrown in.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh top to bottom: from the Witches' Well on the Castle esplanade, down the full length of the Royal Mile past philosophers, firefighters and poets, round the foot of Calton Hill, then the long satisfying descent of Leith Walk to the cobbled Shore — finishing with Burns, anchors and the Merchant Navy memorial where the city meets the sea.
Edinburgh
A gentle wander from Princes Street Gardens — Wojtek the soldier bear, the Scottish American war memorial and a clutch of Victorian worthies — through Charlotte Square to the leafy Dean valley, where St Bernard's Well presides over the Water of Leith. Finish among the cafés of Stockbridge, spotting a Gormley figure standing in the river on the way.
Edinburgh
A short loop through the medieval heart of Edinburgh, tracing the city's love of the sculpted figure — from a famously loyal terrier to the philosophers who made the Old Town a capital of the Enlightenment.
Edinburgh
A gentle walk from the Gothic rocket of the Scott Monument out across the gardens and into the ordered streets of the Georgian New Town, taking in monuments to a bear, a physicist and a fictional detective.