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New Town Walk
Edinburgh New Town was built in stages between 1767 and 1850 and has kept much of its Georgian architecture. The New Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and on this walk you will see much of the original “New Town”. As well as architecture and interesting places we also visit the former homes of Robert Louis Stevenson and Alexander Graham Bell and give you a real insight into this remarkable area.
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Each walk delivers a unique and fascinating user experience. Through Tourist Walks’ self guided tour application you can explore the hidden gems created by local experts. For people wanting to explore the neighbourhood and experience the local culture, we provide a unique experience of exploring the city using GPS guided audio tours. The App is FREE, and all the walk summaries are FREE, each walk is individually priced and you can buy all the walks for a city at a discounted price.
Full Audio Visual Commentary
Tourist Walks is an application that can give you the freedom to explore the famous walks at your own discretion. We have created a full audio-visual self-guided experience that gives you the confidence to explore and discover the stories of various cities on your own.
Visit the Best Tourist Sites & Explore Them
Get a list of all the tourist sites you can visit. The Tourist Walks application will guide you to your next destination because every journey starts with a single step.
GPS and Multilingual Audio and Text Guidance
Even if you don’t understand the local language of the city you are visiting, Don’t worry. Audio guided walks have multilingual text assistance that will guide you in your native language.
Start/Stop/Rewind
/Restart Go at Your Own Pace
Tourist Walks’ audios are narrated by professionals who will keep you entertained while you are walking your way to the next destination. We help you discover the city around you in a more impressive way.
Download the Walk App & Use Offline. No Mobile Data Required.
It is always frustrating when you wish to travel somewhere but your mobile phone service is out-of-order. Don’t worry! Tourist Walks comes with an offline version of built-in maps you might need, even without internet access.
The New Town Walk is full of Georgian Architecture and retail therapy
- Tour Name - New Town Walk
- Tour Location - Edinburgh
- No. of Attractions - #9
- Tour Starting Point - Scottish National Gallery
- Tour Ending Point - Georgian Assembly Rooms
Just some of the highlights to enjoy on our NewTown Walking Tour
Scottish National Gallery
The Scottish National Gallery, shown in our image, is home to probably one of the best collections of fine art in the world. It includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Constable , Turner, Titian and Raphael, to name but a few. The collections also cover the entire history of Scottish painting, with all the major names such as Ramsay, Raeburn, Wilkie and McTaggart represented, so it is definitely worth a visit.
The Royal Scottish Academy promotes contemporary Scottish Art. Apart from a continuous programme of exhibitions it also deals with scholarships, awards and residencies for artists who live and work in Scotland. Both these galleries are situated on what is called “The Mound”, which was created from over two million cartloads of soil dug from the foundations of the New Town.
Royal Scottish Academy
Alexander Graham Bell Home
This is the home of Alexander Graham Bell, the 19th Century inventor of the telephone. You will see a plaque by the door. He eventually moved to the United States where he taught deaf children by day and experimented with telecommunications at night. The first ever telephone call was to his assistant where he said “Come here Mr Watson, I want to see you.”
Georgian House Museum
The Georgian House is a tourist attraction which is open to the public. It is designed to take you back in time, as the house is exactly as was when it was first occupied in the 18th Century. Next door to it, on the right, is Bute House which is the official residence of the first minister of the Scottish Parliament.
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Robert Louis Stevenson Home
Robert Louis Stevenson , the author of Kidnapped and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde lived here between 1856 and1880. He was a very sickly child and spent a lot of his time in bed. His bedroom window is the one above the frontndoor. At that time the streets were lit by gas lamps, and lit by a lamplighter which in Edinburgh was known as a “Leerie”. Young Robert would have seen the “Leerie” often, and it inspired his poem The Lamplighter. Find out more on our tour.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The galleries here explore different aspects of the story of Scotland and her people. Portraits include famous historical figures such as Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Charles Stuart, and Robert Burns. The displays change on a regular basis
The Melville Monument
This is the Melville Monument. The column is 50 meters high and the figure is of Henry Dundas 1st Viscount Melville. Henry was a lawyer and the trusted aid of British Prime Minister William Pitt, he was the most powerful man in Scotland in the last decades of the 18th Century. His nickname was “King Harry the Ninth the uncrowned King of Scotland” in a period when no British monarch ever visited Scotland. Find out more on our tour.
St Andrews Church
St Andrews church is unusual in that it is entirely round. Apparently the idea behind it was that if there were no corners the devil had nowhere to hide! The building with the Graeco-Roman style pillars next to you and directly opposite the church is the Dome and its definitely worth a visit to see the interior and maybe have a coffee, if you can get a table.
Georgian Assembly Rooms
The Georgian Assembly Rooms. were built in the late 18th Century and originally used for the social gatherings of Edinburgh’s elite. The ballroom is adorned with crystal chandeliers. In 1822 they hosted a ball attended by King George IV. A witness to the event said “The ladies were in most elegant white dressed, richly bespangled, and had on plumes of white ostrich feathers…their plumage in constant undulation, appearing to the eye like an ocean of foam”. The rooms are now used as an arts venue and for public events especially during the Edinburgh Festival.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. After the walks have been downloaded, for which you need an internet connection, no mobile data is required to do the walks.
No you can pause and resume at any point within the walk. Whether you need a coffee or a comfort break the walks are entirely flexible.
Yes you will receive both verbal guidance and a GPS enabled map to take you around each of the points of interest on the walks.
No the walks are circular so you will receive multiple options of where to start each walk.
Yes there are providing you buy them as a bundle, not one at a time. You can even buy all the walks in one package at a very generous price.
For each point of interest you will get information both verbally and in text and sometimes video form together with helpful images to get the most from each one.
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