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The Glasshouse, Edinburgh
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EDINBURGH
Closer to home, the main façade of The Glasshouse on Picardy Place is the remnants
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of the 150-year-old Lady Glenorch church, whilst The Scotsman hotel, on North
Bridge, was the main office and printing press for the eponymous newspaper. This
month the Hotel du Vin opens Edinburgh’s Old Town. Located on a triangular piece of
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land, guests enter the hotel via a covered archway from Teviot Place, before reaching
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the inner courtyard featuring an alfresco Cigar Bothy.
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The 47-room boutique hotel sits next to the university’s Bedlam Theatre, a former
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church. The word ‘bedlam’ gives a clue to the new hotel’s former incarnation as a
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lunatic asylum and, more recently, a blood transfusion centre. Scottish poet Robert
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Fergusson spent two years in the so-called Bedlam Asylum and died there aged 24.
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He was said to be the inspiration for Robert Burns to start writing, and it was Burns
who paid for him to have a headstone. Marianne Clave, the hotel’s general manager,
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says the architects tried to incorporate as much of the original building as possible
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into the hotel design. "We’ve used existing old stone and converted this into large
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feature rooms with high ceilings and exposed brickwork walls, and on the top floor,
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exposed rafters." The original asylum building now houses 14 of the bedrooms, as
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well as meeting rooms, a bistro, wine cellars, and a Wine Tasting Room. Judging by the
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success of the other Hotel du Vin hotels, you’d be mad not to visit…
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