Easter Road
The ground where 65,860 people packed in for a January derby — still the record for any Scottish match played outside Glasgow.
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Hibernian have played on this Leith site since 1893, making it one of Scotland's oldest continuous club grounds. The terracing that held those record crowds is long gone — an all-seated redevelopment finished in 2010 brought capacity to 20,421 — but the stadium Hibs fans call "The Leith San Siro" carries the weight of that history in every stand.
What to look for
- The flat playing surface — the original ground had a pronounced slope that was only levelled in 2000
- The all-seated stands completed between 1995 and 2010, replacing the reduced terracing that followed the Taylor Report
- The Leith setting itself — the Easter Road area was first chosen in 1880 for Hibernian Park because it sat equidistant between Edinburgh's Irish immigrant communities in the port of Leith and the Old Town; when the club reformed in 1892 and secured the nearby Drum Park site, that sense of continuity carried over to the current ground
Easter Road is home to Hibernian FC in the Leith area of Edinburgh; check the club's fixture list for matchday access.
Easter Road is one of 28 sights worth the detour in Edinburgh, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Edinburgh pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Edinburgh
- Edinburgh CastleAttacked 26 times over 1,100 years — research calls it the most besieged place in Great Britain.
- Holyrood PalaceScotland's working royal residence since the 1500s — the actual rooms where Mary, Queen of Scots lived are open to walk through.
- The National (Scottish National Gallery)Since 1912, two near-identical neoclassical buildings have stood side by side on The Mound — visitors have been walking into the wrong one ever since.
- National Museum of ScotlandDolly the sheep, one of Elton John's extravagant suits, and a Victorian cast-iron hall — all under one free roof on Chambers Street.
- Murrayfield StadiumScotland's largest stadium opened in 1925 with a Grand Slam win — 70,000 people watched it happen.
- St Giles' CathedralA prayer book read here in 1637 caused a riot that sparked a rebellion pulling three kingdoms into war.