Real Women of Edinburgh Walking Tour

Invisible Cities Tours

Available to 31 December 9999

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Get tickets for Invisible Cities Tours, Real Women of Edinburgh tour!

Enjoy an incredible and unique tour around Edinburgh - learning about significant female figures in the cities history.

Invisible Cities recruit and train people who have experienced homelessness to become walking tour guides. Those people end up offering you unique, off the beaten track tours of their cities!

Their experienced tour guides, all of whom have been affected by homelessness, simply live and breathe their cities. These walking tours truly are an original experience, offering a way to sightsee through someone else's eyes and have an individual perspective of your chosen city!

Tour highlights

  • Begin your adventure at Maggie Dickson’s pub and hear the amazing story of how Maggie Dickson survived a public execution in the early 1700s.
  • Then, make your way to Grassmarket Community Project, a social enterprise and find our how they support vulnerable people in our community.
  • You will also learn about the first body snatchers of Edinburgh (women) and the most successful author and Scriptwriter of the UK (also a woman).
  • You will finish the tour at the bottom of the royal mile, hearing more stories of social enterprises that support women nowadays.

Meet your guide

This tour is delivered by Gayle. As the only woman part of the group of guides in Edinburgh she is passionate about spreading the word about women stories and services available to them in the city!

Don't miss out on this truly empowering tour, get tickets now and have them delivered instantly via email and SMS!

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