This is probably the number one tourist attraction in Edinburgh, and it is an impressive sight. The Castle sits atop an extinct volcano. The views of the city below are spectacular. Highlights for us were the Great Hall with its cool hammer-beam roof from 1511; the Crown Room, which houses the Crown Jewels; the One-O'clock Gun, fired almost every day since 1861; the National War Museum; and Mons Meg, one of the world's oldest canons. There's also a fascinating \"Prisons of War\" exhibit, about the time when the castle housed enemies including American Revolutionary sailors! Taped reenactments of supposed conversations among prisoners play in the background as you walk through spaces set up as they would have been when prisoners lived and slept there.
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