Did you know? * Edinburgh was the first city in the world to have its own fire brigade * Edinburgh is UNESCO's first City of literature and its old and new towns are a World Heritage Site. * Edinburgh is reputed to be one of the most haunted places in Europe and is home to the Mackenzie Poltergeist, the violent spirit of a seventeenth-century murderer and torturer Edinburgh has come a long way from its origins as a fort on top of a rock. Home to more festivals than any city could reasonably handle, Edinburgh manages to be at once stylish and raffish, historic and bang up-to-date. There is architecture, history, castles, palaces, museums, art galleries, theatre, great shopping, countryside and beaches...But there is even more to Edinburgh than that. This book tells all!