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Parade Route Historical Sites

Discover the historical sites along the parade route, each connected to Scotland's Covenanting heritage and the struggle for religious freedom.

Greyfriars Kirkyard

Site of the signing of the National Covenant in 1638

A centre of Reformed worship and Covenanting resistance

Public execution site of several Covenanting martyrs

Central to the Scottish Reformation and Protestant protest

Place of public proclamations concerning church and state

Marking the site of the Old Tolbooth and imprisonment of Covenanters

Home of the father of the Scottish Reformation

Former prison used to detain religious and political dissenters

A Presbyterian kirk standing beside royal authority

Associated with the Stuart monarchy and opposition to Covenanting principles