Scottish Parliament

A stormy day with snow and sunshine

We had a wee visit to Edinburgh where we visited Holyrood Abbey and also the nearby Scottish Parliament Building. It is a beautiful place, fitted for modern government. According to its website:

Scotland's Parliament sits at the foot of Edinburgh's famous Royal Mile in front of the spectacular Holyrood Park and Salisbury Crags. Constructed from a mixture of steel, oak, and granite, the complex building was hailed on opening as one of the most innovative designs in Britain today.
Drawing inspiration from the surrounding landscape, the flower paintings by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the upturned boats on the seashore, Enric Miralles, one of the world's premier architects, developed a design that he said was a building "growing out of the land".