Vistory of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Tourist Information; Video Travel Guide 1

From Edinburgh's Medieval Old Town built on a crag with an ice-age tail - to the world-renowned Georgian New Town, which Edinburgh Castle looks down upon. An overview Edinburgh: Featuring the Classically-influenced architecture and temples, in the city, which Edinburgh-born Robert Louis Stevenson described, so well, when writing 'Picturesque Notes' (1879); and the firing of the famous 'One O' Click Gun' from the ramparts of Edinburgh Castle.

 

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End of Edinburgh Festival Fireworks: Video Travel Guide 2

Using footage shot at Bank of Scotland fireworks and music extravaganza, at the end of Edinburgh's International festival as background, we explain how Edinburgh's landscape was formed, and examine the lifestyle of the city's earliest inhabitants (The Votadini).

Fireworks are choreographed to music of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and choir, synchronised to the beat of their conductors' baton (Matthew Hall).

 

 

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Rising up from a primeval swamp, Edinburgh began its life as one of the many volcanoes in the area. Over many thousands of years as ice ages came and went, grinding movement of huge sheets of ice shaped and reshaped Edinburgh castle rock's contour. The glaciers of the last ice age melted, and left a trail of earth and stones in its wake, creating a crag with a tail; this forms the distinctive landscape, upon which Edinburgh grew.

Edinburgh New Year on Royal Mile: Video Travel Guide 3

Gododdin Carabosse and the BBC: We continue with our early history of Edinburgh. Using extracts from a BBC radio three program, about a Welsh poem "Y Gododdin", to find out what happened to The Votadini tribe. We filmed this video footage when the street theatre entertainers Carabosse' appeared on the Royal Mile last New Year, as part of our 2010 Hogmanay celebrations.

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It's now circa 600AD; The Romans gone, and we find descendants of The Votadini tribe in their stronghold. These northern Celtic Britons are 'The Gododdin', and their story is told, in the poem 'Y Gododdin', written in Brythonic, an early Welsh language.