TO say that Edinburgh is a beautiful city would probably be viewed as an understatement.

With the elegant Georgian terraces along orderly streets in the New Town to the cobbled and higgledy piggledy warren of streets in the Old Town, it is undoubtedly worthy of its double UNESCO status.

All this, of course, plus the world-renowned castle which looks down on the entire city from it’s dominant position atop Castle Rock.

The massed throngs of visitors every year cannot fail to be impressed by the grandness of the city which looks as if it hasn’t really changed for hundreds of years.

But of course, Edinburgh, like other great European capitals such as London and Paris, has modernised over the years with shiny new glass frontages now commonplace.

In all the cases, it hasn’t made a huge difference to their beauty and stature as the old and new live side by side.

However, not everyone is happy with the modern makeovers and heritage conservationists are left battling to retain the original charms.

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