Edinburgh's Wizarding Secrets
Step into the closes, cafés, and cobblestoned wynds that inspired the Wizarding World.
From moonlit graveyard walks to professional filmmaking sessions.
The most fact-checked wizarding tour in Edinburgh.
Discover the streets, closes and pubs that made it onto the big screen.
Uncover everything about Edinburgh's legendary Greyfriars Kirkyard.
Learn how to capture professional-quality photos and videos across the city's most iconic locations.
Private experiences are tailored exclusively for your group. All run on request.
An exclusive Harry Potter tour tailored entirely to your group.
A private after-hours visit to the world's most haunted graveyard.
Up to 4 hours of personalised filming. Includes post-production of one professional TikTok-style video.
Every close holds a story. Every cobblestone, a secret.
"Standing in Greyfriars, hearing the story of Tom Riddle's name carved into a real tombstone — I genuinely had chills."
"We brought our children and they were completely spellbound. Utterly magical from start to finish."
"The underground vaults tour was unlike anything I've experienced. Booked again for next year."
"I kept hearing the same myths told on the Royal Mile every single day. So I started writing them down."
Álvaro Palomo is a Spanish filmmaker, actor and the founder of Wizarding Edinburgh. Born in Fuensalida, Spain, his obsession with Harry Potter began at thirteen — when he launched FuensaPotterRadio, a live programme on local FM radio that ran for seven seasons and over 250 episodes, and earned him coverage across national Spanish media.
After a career in Spanish cinema — appearing in Bajo un manto de estrellas, La Espina de Dios, Re-Emigrantes (available on streaming platforms) and a cameo in Gemma Galgani (2025, currently in cinemas across Spain, the USA, Latin America, Brazil, Portugal and Poland, where he plays P. Cayetano Guidi) — Álvaro made a deliberate choice: to move to Edinburgh, the very city where Harry Potter was born, and study filmmaking there.
He became the first Spanish-speaking guide to lead free Harry Potter tours in Edinburgh, and since 2018 has hosted hundreds of ghost tours, historical walks and pub crawls through the city's Old Town. What he found troubled him. Fellow guides — talented, well-meaning people — were repeating the same unverified stories tour after tour. Myths dressed as facts. Connections invented for drama.
Álvaro began documenting every claim he heard, cross-referencing each one against primary sources, academic records and Rowling's own words. The result is what he calls the Revelio Bureau — a rigorous, ongoing body of research that forms the backbone of every Wizarding Edinburgh tour, and will soon become a book: the most thoroughly documented account of J.K. Rowling's Edinburgh years ever written.
As a working filmmaker — director of Ring for Change and ZEE, cinematographer on Melting the Pot: A Co-working Experience, colourist on Shadows of the Silver Screen, and winner of Best VFX at the Spliced 2023 Film Festival — Álvaro brings a storyteller's eye to everything he does. The Edinburgh with a Filmmaker tour is not a side offering. It is the other half of who he is.
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