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The timeless appeal of Auld Reekie
IT MIGHT rest above volcanoes millions of years old, but Edinburgh is a relatively recent capital city in European terms.
Although Edinburgh has existed as an urban settlement for at least a thousand years, the city only officially became the capital of Scotland when the Parliament resided permanently here in the 1630s. Even that spell of capital status was short-lived, for after the Act of Union in 1707 it merely became the administrative centre for North Britain.
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