Walking The Royal Mile

The Royal Mile could be called the most famous street in Edinburgh. It’s quite a long road that connects Edinburgh Castle at one end with the Palace of Holyroodhouse at the other. Situated pretty much smack dang in the middle of Edinburgh’s Old Town, the street gets its name from the processional route that Scottish Kings and Queens would take from the comforts of Holyroodhouse to the blustery Edinburgh Castle up on its exposed rock. The street itself is lined with towering tenements, cobbled closes and narrow wynds. Oddly enough its name gives an idea as to its length. The ‘Royal Mile’ refers to a Scots mile, which is about 1.81km, and even though its longer than what the English define as a mile, the Scots miles hasn’t been used since the 18th century. And many of the buildings along the street show us an example of architecture before even that. <a href="https://medium.com/destination-history/walking-the-royal-mile-16bfa625596">Website</a>