A couple of weeks ago we decided to visit Holyrood Palace, in Edinburgh, I had only peered at it through the railings previously. As usual it’s the places nearby that get overlooked while we concentrated on visiting far-flung places.
Below is a stitch of the palace which is more correctly called the Palace of Holyroodhouse. Holy rood of course means holy cross.
As you can see the architecture is of the Scots Baronial type which was influenced by French and Italian architecture.
The photo below is of the courtyard in the centre of the building, it’s a lovely green space to look out onto.
It all seemed quite empty at this point but when we got inside there seemed to be far too many people in the smallish rooms. I think I would even have felt that if there had not been an ongoing pandemic, some of them had obviously just come off planes! Anyway, we seem to have survived and I’ll blog about some of those rooms tomorrow!
Pretty architecture and that lawn is eyepopping green!
Stefanie,
Yes it is pretty, it wasn’t built for defence as the castle is in a much better position for that.
The building is impressive but I love that first photo of the entrance.
tracybham,
Thanks, actually I think Jack took that one.