A living past, exceptional urban amenities and a cultured, contemporary world view, shape Edinburgh City Region.
Edinburgh has consistently been voted ‘Favourite UK City’ by Observer, Conde Naste (2010 Award Winner for Best City) and Guardian readers. In 2008 Edinburgh was named as of the world's top ten cities by travel magazine Wanderlust. The quality of life in the city region is endorsed by its residents who registered a 92% satisfaction rate, the highest of any city surveyed in a 2006 MORI poll.
In 2007 Edinburgh was voted the best place to live in the UK by Channel 4's Location Location Location programme.
Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns collectively form a UNESCO World Heritage site. A centrepiece of medieval closes, bounded by a masterpiece of Georgian town planning.
Wake to this ‘dream in masonry and rock’ as Robert Louis Stevenson called the capital. It remains one of the world’s most walkable cities. There’s a generous range of housing options in the wider city region, which can be accessed easily by the efficient transport system.
Every August, Edinburgh hosts the biggest arts festival in the world. It provides the impetus which sustains the cultural energy of the city region throughout the year.
(Image courtesy of the Scottish Parliament)
The great joy of living in Edinburgh is not just its beauty, which is incontestable, but the fact that it is so liveable in. It is a city that has been built around its people, from the tenements of the old town to the new-classical grandeur of the new town
Magnus Linklater, cultural spokesperson
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