EDINBURGH: Scotland's Capital Like You've Never Seen It | Travel Documentary

There is a volcano in the middle of this city, and nobody runs from it. They climb it before breakfast. Edinburgh grew on the bones of three dead volcanoes, and somewhere along the way it became one of the most beautiful cities anyone has ever built. But the volcanoes are not the surprise. The surprise is this: Edinburgh is not one city. It is two, two centuries apart, pressed together along a single valley, and you can walk from one into the other in the time it takes to finish a sentence. This is a full day spent on foot in Scotland's capital, from cold first light on the wild summit of Arthur's Seat down into the medieval Old Town, with its castle fused to the living rock and its hidden closes branching off the Royal Mile into secret courtyards. Cross the green valley into the New Town, the largest complete Georgian city in the world, built from scratch on reason, symmetry and light, where Hume and Adam Smith once walked streets still wet with plaster. Eat where the locals eat, haggis and whisky, cullen skink and cranachan. Wander the city that has inspired more than five hundred novels and was the first City of Literature on Earth, the place a struggling writer once turned into a world of wizards. Find the hidden village folded into a gorge a fifteen-minute walk from the busiest street in town, follow the river down to the sea at Leith, and climb at last into the golden hour, when both cities glow honey and fire below you and you understand exactly why people quietly move their flights home a little later. This is Scotland's capital like you have never seen it, two cities, two centuries, one single golden view. ⏱️ Chapters 00:00 A City Built on Three Dead Volcanoes 01:46 Dawn on Arthur's Seat 04:23 Down into the Old Town and the Royal Mile 05:16 The Hidden Closes 07:50 Up to the Castle 10:51 The Valley and the City That Makes No Sense 11:33 The New Town: A Second City Built From Reason 14:01 The Gardens Between Two Worlds 15:33 The Hotbed of Genius 17:24 Eating Like a Local: Haggis, Whisky and Cranachan 20:51 The Most Literary City on Earth 24:37 August: When the City Becomes the World's Loudest Stage 26:02 Stockbridge, the Hidden Village and the Walk to the Sea 29:10 The Golden Hour From Calton Hill 32:29 The Blue Hour and the Warmth of the Night ► Subscribe for more journeys into the world's most remote, wild and untouched places:    / @unseencountries   #Edinburgh #Scotland #TravelDocumentary