Fact File
● At 2.7km (1.7 miles) the Queensferry Crossing is the longest triple tower cable-stayed bridge in the world.
● Discarded hazelnut shells found on Cramond Island were carbon dated to 8500BC and thought to have been left by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers.
● Lauriston Castle is set within an historic garden laid out by the great Scottish architect William Henry Playfair in the 1840s.
● Several important fish fossils – some over 400 million years old – have been found at Newhaven. Charles Darwin studied geology and fossils at Newhaven when at Edinburgh University in 1825.
● The National Monument of Scotland was never completed but commemorates the Scots soldiers who died in the Napoleonic Wars.