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Edinburgh is the beautiful and inspiring capital city of Scotland. It hosts one of the greatest arts festivals in the world, holds a massive street party every new year and is a UNESCO City of Literature that also includes two World Heritage Sites. For these and many other reasons the city and surrounding region attracts over five million visitors every year.
Financial centre
It’s an international business player too, being the second largest financial centre in the UK after London and the sixth largest in Europe. It is a major centre for research with three respected universities plus several science parks and research institutes.
Good quality of life
People in Edinburgh know it’s a great place. Those born in the city stay, students return, people passing through put down roots and visitors come back again and again. Edinburgh consistently comes top in polls about the city with the best quality of life in the UK.
