Edinburgh is the city, where the Scottish spirit can be felt as vastly, as nowhere. A bagpipe and a kilt even nowadays are a part of everyday life. Scottish food, which consists only of healthy products, is well-known for its high quality. Basically it Scottish food includes beef, lamb, game and a lot of fish. All over the world is known not only Scottish cheese and Scottish beer, but also Scottish whisky.
The Edinburgh Castle. The Edinburgh Castle is the most popular place of interest; it seems that the castle just hovers over the center of Edinburgh. If you go by the drawbridge inside, you can see the well-known Stone of Fortune, the sacred Scottish relic, where long, long ago English and Scottish monarchs used to be crowned. From the castle one can enjoy a wonderful view on the whole city. Every day, except for Sundays, at 1 p.m. sharply you can hear the shoot of the castle alarm-gun. The Edinburgh Castle is also splendid scenery for the Annual Festival of Army Orchestras. During the Edinburgh Festival and on New Year's Day over the castle you may see the great holiday fireworks. More than that in the Edinburgh the staging of new adventures of Harry Potter is carried out.
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