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The palace, much altered over the generations, was generally used as a residence only at times of dynastic importance or danger, when Holyrood, down in the lowland, was difficult to defend.
Canongate derived its name from an edict by David I (1124–1157), founder of the Abbey of Holyrood, who granted a right to raise a gate between the abbey and the Royal “burgh” of Edinburgh.
When the castle was built atop the hill, the original city of Edinburgh grew on this ridge, reaching down in a ribbon of development toward the Abbey of Holyrood, at the foot of the hill in the east.
Outside, set in manicured gardens, are the remains of the Abbey of Holyrood.
Directly in front of Parliament, on Holyrood Road, is Our Dynamic Earth, which opened in July 1999 in a futuristic building under a brilliant white-tented roof.