Edinburgh is the ___________of Scotland. It is a very ________old city. About _____________ people live in the city and _________ people visit it every year. Every year in ________there is a festival in the city with a lot of_________ ________and comedy.
The original city was built on the _________. This is the street in Edinburgh’s _________. The Royal Mile is about________ kilometres long. It starts at __________Palace and finishes at ________ Castle. It is called the Royal Mile because it connects two __________ homes.
The castle is nearly _________ years old. It stands on an enormous piece of volcanic rock and it looks down on the rest of the ________. King David I of Scotland was the _________ king who built on the rock in about____________. He built the chapel and named it “Queen Mary’s Chapel” after _________. For the next_______years the castle was at the centre of wars between________and__________. In the ____th the castle became the ________of the King of Scotland. Each new king added to the castle. In _________James IV built the Great Hall. In the_______th century Scotland officially became part of the __________. The last battle at the castle was in________ when Prince Charles Edward Stewart whose nickname was Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to capture the castle. In the early of___th century the castle was a______________but it is now a tourist attraction. About________ million people visit the Castle every year. They also come to see and hear the One o’clock Gun Soldiers fire this every day at exactly___________. But they really come for the views of the city of Edinburgh.