A private walking tour of Dean Village, Edinburgh's genuinely picturesque, lesser-visited neighbourhood.
A private tour for your group only, through the real Dean Village and the genuine Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Dean Village, genuinely off the standard tourist route, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meeting point at Dean Village.
Genuinely picturesque, lesser-visited.
A real, genuine art stop.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, through the real Dean Village and the genuine Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Dean Village, genuinely off the standard tourist route, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
Dean Village, once known simply as the "Water of Leith Village," was a working grain-milling settlement for more than 800 years — mills here are first recorded in 1143, granted under King David I to the Incorporation of Baxters, Edinburgh's bakers' guild. At its peak the village held as many as eleven working mills powered by the Water of Leith, and carved stone plaques built into some of the surviving buildings, showing baked bread and pies, still commemorate that history.
The milling industry declined through the 19th century as the trade modernised elsewhere, leaving today's quiet cluster of converted mill buildings sitting below Thomas Telford's Dean Bridge (built 1831-1832), which carries traffic high over the gorge without most visitors on the road above ever realising a village is tucked beneath it.
Just up the hill sits the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, housed since 1984 in the former John Watson's Institution — a Greek Revival building designed by architect William Burn in 1825 and opened in 1828 as a school for fatherless children, before closing in 1975. Now known as Modern One within the National Galleries of Scotland, the building's grand neoclassical frontage makes for an unusual home for a modern and contemporary art collection.
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