Audio walks in Edinburgh

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• 24 walks
• 252 places with a written story
• 3 km of routes in total
• 0.2-1.5 hours per walk
• written in EN, DE, ES, FR, IT
• last walk added 2026-10-16

Walks in Edinburgh

1. Ink, Ballads and Double Lives: Edinburgh's Literary Old Town

   A walk through the world's first UNESCO City of Literature, from the Writers' Museum and Greyfriars Bobby to Robert Fergusson's Bedlam, Deacon Brodie, the first Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rebus country, Allan Ramsay's forbidden theatre and a house built for poems

   12 stops · 30 min audio · EN

2. Leith Uncovered: The Shore, the Docks and the Birthplace of Golf's Rules in Edinburgh

   From a Cromwell-era rampart to a Cromwellian fortress gate: siege mounds, the first rules of golf, a queen out of the fog, a windmill that talked to ships, and the claret and whisky of Edinburgh's stubbornly independent port

   12 stops · 29 min audio · EN

3. Crowns, Kirks and Sanctuary: Edinburgh's Canongate and the Palace of Holyroodhouse

   Down the lower Royal Mile from a lost queen's church to the palace where Rizzio died: a royal burgh of its own, a ruined abbey of kings, a park where debtors hid from the law, and back up to the gate where the world ended

   12 stops · 28 min audio · EN

4. Calton Hill, Edinburgh: Monuments, Martyrs and the Athens of the North

   From Robert Adam's Register House and David Hume's tomb up to the unfinished National Monument, Nelson's time ball and the most famous view in Edinburgh, then round Playfair's terraces to the parliament that never sat

   12 stops · 27 min audio · EN

5. Climbing a Volcano: Arthur's Seat & Holyrood Park, Edinburgh

   From the Scottish Parliament and James Hutton's deep time to Salisbury Crags, hidden Hunter's Bog, the 251-metre summit of an ancient volcano and the lochs of Duddingston village

   12 stops · 28 min audio · EN

6. Edinburgh New Town und Calton Hill: Georgianische Plätze und die Schottische Aufklärung

   Vom Charlotte Square über Stevensons Kinderzimmer und das Scott Monument bis zu Humes Grab und dem Athen des Nordens auf dem Calton Hill: die geplante Stadt, in der Europa das Denken neu lernte

   11 stops · 28 min audio · DE

7. Edinburgh, Stadt der Literatur: Von Walter Scotts Kindheit bis zu Jekyll und Hyde

   Ein Spaziergang durch die literarische Altstadt der ersten UNESCO-Literaturstadt der Welt: Scott, Burns, Stevenson, Hume, ein treuer Hund, ein Doppelleben und die Wiege der Encyclopaedia Britannica

   11 stops · 28 min audio · DE

8. Arthur's Seat und Holyrood Park: Wanderung auf Edinburghs Vulkan

   Vom Schottischen Parlament über die Salisbury Crags und James Huttons Gesteine hinauf auf den 251 Meter hohen Gipfel und hinunter nach Duddingston: Wildnis mitten in Edinburgh

   11 stops · 27 min audio · DE

9. Hidden Glen: Edinburgh's Dean Village, Water of Leith & Georgian Royalty

   A tranquil journey through fairytale grain mills, cobbled riverside paths, Grecian mineral temples, and the neoclassical grandeur of the New Town

   7 stops · 10 min audio · EN

10. Edinburghs Königsweg: Die Royal Mile, Schlossfelsen und Holyroodhouse

    Ein Spaziergang durch die schottische Geschichte—vom erloschenen Vulkan der Burg über geheime Closes bis zum Palast von Maria Stuart

    7 stops · 10 min audio · DE

11. Royal Mile & Old Town Ghosts: Witchcraft, Vaults, and Graverobbers

    A chilling journey through Edinburgh's darkest closes, haunted wynds, and grim subterranean secrets

    7 stops · 12 min audio · EN

12. Voices of the Old Town

    Where every cobblestone has a name and every close has a story

    16 stops · 3.4 km · ~1.5 h · 32 min audio · EN

Routes people ask for in Edinburgh

• Walk from Edinburgh Castle to St Giles' Cathedral
• Walk from St Giles' to Palace of Holyroodhouse
• Walk from Grassmarket to Greyfriars Kirkyard
• Walk from Royal Mile to Princes Street Gardens
• Walk from Old Town to Calton Hill

How long do you want to walk?

• Quick — about an hour
• Deep Dive — half a day
• City Epic — a full day