Edinburgh is top of my list as well - partly due to growing up just outside it and getting the development of the city chapter and verse in our history lessons at school. Nice fact - the New Town of Edinburgh was designed through a competition around the time of the Jacobite rebellion of the Scots against the English monarchy and as a result it isn't entirely suprising that the winning entry was distinctly royalist. Hence Prince's Street, Rose street (an English heraldic symbol), Queen Street, George Street and so on. It's a beautiful part of town in distinct contrast to the far more organic mediaeval old town with suggestively named streets such as Fleshmarket Close and Cockburn Street .