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It's a city with so much to offer - so here are some of the must-see places to check out during your next trip to Edinburgh!

I’ve always loved Edinburgh. Ever since I first visited as a kid, I’ve thought it was an absolute dream of a city.

I never thought for a million years that I’d actually live here! But six weeks ago, after months of umming and ahhing, my partner and I finally signed a lease on a flat just opposite Holyrood Park.

I may not be a true Dunediner (Edinburgher?), but this is now the city I call home.

Holyrood Park - including Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags - is a huge green space right in the centre of Edinburgh

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There are still parts of the city I haven’t explored yet, and there’s a bunch of galleries I want to check out in the coming weeks.

But for those of you planning a trip up north some time this summer, Edinburgh has a whole lot to offer.

If it’s cobbled streets and old buildings you’re after, why not have a potter around the city’s Old Town – at the heart of Edinburgh’s protected UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Every street is like something out of Harry Potter… which kind of makes sense when you realise that this is where Harry Potter was written!

Some people even say that Edinburgh’s Victoria Street was the inspiration for Diagon Alley!

It’s in the Old Town that you’ll find the legendary Edinburgh Castle. Dating back to at least the 11th century, the Castle looms over the city and offers breathtaking views across the Old Town.

And just a stone’s throw along the Royal Mile is St Giles’ Cathedral, another one of the city’s many architectural wonders.

This design shows the imposing west front of St Giles', with its crown steeple and its sturdy ashlar stone façade soaked in orange light

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Built in the 14th century, the cathedral has often been called the Westminster Abbey of Scotland, and it's easy to see why: not just because of its imposing façade, but because of the many memorials it houses - including shrines to Robert Louis Stevenson and to the Reformation leader John Knox.

Once upon a time, the cathedral was also home to the arm bone of St Giles, though the relic vanished during the Reformation. Its location continues to be a mystery today.

Medieval buildings not your thing? Not to worry.

Edinburgh's old town is also home to the National Museum of Scotland, where you'll find one of the world's most famous scientific specimens: the stuffed body of Dolly the Sheep, the female Finn-Dorset sheep cloned by Scottish scientists in 1996.

The new Museum of Scotland building opened in 1998 next to the older Royal Scottish Museum: together, they became the National Museum of Scotland, with collections covering a range of history, science, art, and culture

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A taxidermy clone of a sheep might sound like something out of a horror story, and it's fair to say that Edinburgh has had its fair share of things that go bump in the night.

In 1828, over a period of ten months, William Burke and William Hare killed sixteen people and sold the corpses to Scottish anatomist Robert Knox - who then performed public dissections at his famous anatomy lectures.

Hare turned over his co-conspirator in exchange for immunity. Burke, meanwhile, was hanged and then publicly dissected - and his skeleton is still on display today at the Anatomical Museum.

And if all that gives you the heebie-jeebies, then you can always get some fresh air up on one of the city's seven hills.

Anyone who’s seen the new Netflix adaptation of David Nicholls’s One Day will know that no visit to Edinburgh is complete without a hike up Arthur's Seat.

It may only be 250 metres high, but it towers over the city and offers spectacular views towards the Pentland Hills in the south and the Firth of Forth in the north.

This design shows Holyrood Park from a viewpoint near Edinburgh Castle, with the city’s spires and rooftops in between

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If I'm honest, the real reason I moved to Edinburgh was because my partner lived here already.

But so far it's more than lived up to my expectations.

Old cobbled streets, nice pubs, and lots of green space: what more could you want from a city?

And if that's not enough, then you're only a few hours' drive from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs... But that's a blog for another day!

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