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is accessed through a small building on Chalmers St car park near Tesco. Steep steps lead down to what was probably a monastic hermitage or shrine - Margaret herself had no need to pray here, having royal chapels aplenty.

Carnegie funded the building of this public library in his home town, opened in 1883, and he went on to fund over 2800 more. A modern extension, opened in 2017, houses a museum and galleries.

Carnegie purchased this park and gave it to the people of the town; the grand gates were added in 1908. A stream runs through a bosky glen and there are various walkways, an Art Deco pavilion, gardens and hothouses, and the stumps of King Malcolm Canmore's tower dating to 1000 AD.

The Abbey dates back to the 11th century and is Romanesque, but ruined in the Reformation. Several parts such as the impressive nave were incorporated into the 19th-century parish church. Notable burials here are St Margaret of Scotland, Robert the Bruce, and five other kings and their queens. Attached to the Abbey are the few remains of the Palace: King Charles I was born here in 1600, but by the end of that century both the palace and the Stuart royal dynasty were broken.

This is the original Carnegie Hall, a 540-seat theatre named for the local-boy-made-good. The shows are mostly light fare.

This humble weavers' cottage was the birthplace of the steel tycoon and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919); the grand museum hall adjoining was built by his widow in 1928. The cottage shows how it would have been at the time of Carnegie's birth, with the hall having a detailed exhibition on his life. He was 12 when the family emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he was soon noticed for his brightness and hard-working. He became prosperous through the railway industry, then enormously wealthy through iron and steel. He resolved to donate most of this to causes such as education, and by the time of his death had donated over $350 million, equivalent to $80 billion in today's money.