Italiani.it interviews Valentina who moved to Edinburgh to do a PhD in Business Administration. It is a lively city, full of shops and clubs but also of monuments ”says Valentina, a young Italian who moved to Edinburgh
If we wanted to spend a weekend in Edinburgh, what would you recommend Valentina?
From the medieval Old Town that dominates the panorama to the New Town, elegant and commercial, built in the 700th century, without forgetting a rugby match and a visit to Rosslyn Chapel
Edinburgh it is divided in two by the park of Princeps Street, the main street. L'Old Town it is medieval, built on a hill whose ridge constitutes the RoyalMike. A sequence of four streets that go from the Parliament to the Castle, where there are museums, the royal treasure and a view that sweeps across the city to the Firth of Forth, the fjord with the famous bridge. There newtown it is the elegant and commercial part, built at the end of the 700th century. A chessboard of five parallel streets with the wide one george street in the center closed by two squares. Both are Unesco Heritage.
A particular place is Calton Hill, the hill near the center, on which there is a tower dedicated to Admiral Nelson and the National Monuments, which remained incomplete due to lack of funds, says Valentina.
How do you go to Edinburgh and not attend the rugby party?
Il Rugby it is a celebration of sport, friendship and joy. Traditionally the supporters of both teams are found at the beginning of the avenue that leads from the center to the stadium. They all go together in procession, singing and chatting with some "technical stop" in the pubs!
Stone embroidery and secret dreams
If you have read Ithe Da Vinci Code or have you seen the movie, the name Rosslyn chapel it will sound familiar.
Although the Holy Grail it has never been preserved here, a visit is a must for the beauty of the late fifteenth-century chapel with its stone decorations carved and modeled in the most disparate forms. Flowers, plants, monstrous beings, geometric patterns, an indecipherable ceiling and the two famous columns called “Del Maestro” and “Dell'Apprendista”.
Legend has it that an apprentice stonemason had in a dream the secrets to be able to create a more beautiful and complex column than that of the master who, envious, killed him.
“This is what I recommend you to visit in Edinburgh” - says Valentina. “I love the'Italy but now my life is here and, like other guys, I decided to emigrate from the beautiful country to find a job ".
