This Saturday, Edinburgh will go dark. In conjunction with the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2012, Edinburgh will join hundreds of cities from all over the world by switching off lights and electricity, and going dark, for an hour. Earth Hour is scheduled on the last Saturday of every March, closely coinciding with the equinox, [...]
by Kirsten Hayley Waller The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) is applying to Historic Scotland to place the symbol of the Olympic rings on Edinburgh Castle during August 2012. The rings will measure 8.5m in height and 18m in width, and will be displayed on the north-west rampart of the castle. LOCOG [...]
By Georgi Bomb This Saturday, 26 March, remember to switch off your lights at 8.30-9.30pm as people around the world sit in the dark to join in the world’s biggest environmental campaign, set up by WWF. WWF are doing their bit for climate change week with ‘Earth Hour.’ It started in Australia during 2007 and [...]
A 10-year plan for Edinburgh Castle has been agreed, which reinforces the commitment between Historic Scotland and the Army to share the site. There were previous concerns that the military would pull out of the base, leaving it as only a visitor attraction. The castle remains an army base, as well as Scotland’s biggest visitor [...]
By Tracy Norris Historic Scotland is celebrating dramatic visitor numbers to Edinburgh Castle thanks to ‘The Venus Effect’. A two week exhibition of the Orkney Venus to coincide with school half term has been extended by a further two weeks after the Castle welcomed a huge 17% increase in visitor numbers compared to the same [...]
![Archaeologist Jakob Kainz made the discovery of the face [Pic: Historic Scotland]](http://edinburghnapiernews.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/orkney-venus.jpg?w=50&h=50&crop=1 "Orkney Venus")
By Tracy Norris Barely over 4 centimetres tall, the Orkney Venus saw daylight for the first time in 5,000 years when she was unearthed by archaeologists this summer. Found during an excavation by Historic Scotland on the Orkney island of Westray, the figure is a rare and exciting find. Not only is the charming, simplistic figurine [...]
By Julia Bruce Courtesy of homecomingscotland.com Scotland’s own Edinburgh Castle has seen a 7% annual increase in visitors in 2009 alone. This surge could be down to the year of the homecoming which has made way to over 400 events, adverts and public interest over the past year. 250 year’s later, is appears that Scotland [...]
By Annabel Cooper Major city landmarks and municipal buildings were plunged into darkness for an hour on Saturday night as Edinburgh joined 830 cities around the world for the World Wildlife Federation‘s (WWF) Earth Hour. Edinburgh Castle, the Forth Rail Bridge, the Scott Monument and the National Galleries were among the public buildings taking part [...]
By Suzanne Bargon The fate of Edinburgh’s World Heritage Status lies at the hands of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) as they begin a four-day tour of Scotland’s Capital City today. Edinburgh shares the title along with other inspiring wonders of he world including the Egyptian pyramids and the Taj Mahal. [...]
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