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Edinburgh walking routes — 30 editor-picked walks with maps and what’s on

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30 routes — editor-walked, or clearly flagged until they are.

Edinburgh rewards the uphill walker — medieval closes in the Old Town, Georgian symmetry in the New Town, and the volcano behind Holyrood.

No city packs this much vertical drama into so short a walk. The Old Town stacks itself down the Royal Mile in closes and stairs, then the ground drops to the Water of Leith and the doll's-house calm of Dean Village and Stockbridge. Climb Calton Hill or Arthur's Seat and the whole thing lines up at once. Bring proper shoes and no hurry.

No leaderboards, no algorithm — just the walks the editor thought were worth your time, with notes on what to actually look at along the way.

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