St Giles' Cathedral
Local highlightCrown-spired kirk on the Royal Mile.
St Giles’ Cathedral, the High Kirk of Edinburgh, is the great church at the heart of the Royal Mile, marked out by its distinctive crown steeple. Inside, don’t miss the Thistle Chapel, a small, extraordinarily carved space built in the early 20th century for the Order of the Thistle. This was John Knox’s church and a centre of the Scottish Reformation. It’s open to visitors with a donation requested, and stands a few minutes’ walk up from Waverley station.
