Free Tour of Leith, The Shore & Trainspotting

Choose Leith! We will learn firsthand about the buildings and churches that served as sites for the Seamen's Guilds and customs houses that proliferated in the area, as well as the gardens where the first 13 rules of golf were laid down and where the first-ever Open Golf Championship was held. Of course, we will talk about the great plague of Bubonic Plague that decimated three-quarters of the population of Leith, and we will visit the South Leith Parish Church Cemetery. Leith has an ancient port that saw the landing of kings and queens who forged the past, present, and future of this country and whose history we will have to delve into to understand the fundamental role that this neighborhood has played in the history of Scotland. We will approach the world of the arts to learn the biography of Eduardo Paolozzi, an illustrious neighbor of this neighborhood and creator of POP art, and we will also get to know the locations of the novel and later cult movie "Trainspotting," as well as the biography of its author, Irvine Welsh. A tour in which we will enjoy picturesque canals and in which we will talk about architecture, history, and cinema.