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Princes Street

Princes Street is one of the major thoroughfares in central , , and the main shopping street in the capital. It is the southernmost street of Edinburgh's , stretching around 1.2 km from Lothian Road in the west, to Leith Street in the east.
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  • Type: Bus stop
  • Description: major thoroughfare in central Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Princes Street (west)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Gallery.

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is a historic castle in , . It stands on , which has been occupied by humans since at least the Iron Age. There has been a royal castle on the rock since the reign of Malcolm III in the 11th century, and the castle continued to be a royal residence until 1633. is situated 990 feet south of Princes Street.

Art gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. is situated 1,100 feet east of Princes Street.

Fountain
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is a cast-iron structure located in West Princes Street Gardens, . It was installed in 1872 and restored in 2018. is situated 630 feet southwest of Princes Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Moray Estate.

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of is 250 years old, in contrast to the settled for over a thousand years. It was laid out on a grid pattern in the late 18th century with elegant Georgian townhouses, and the intervening loch was drained to become Princes Street Gardens.

Neighborhood
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The , also known as the Moray Feu, is an early 19th century building venture attaching the west side of the . Built on an awkward and steeply sloping site, it has been described as a masterpiece of urban planning.

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is the original settlement of . At its core is the Royal Mile, the long street descending east from Castle Crag to Holyrood Palace. This medieval city was cramped for space so it built higher and higher, and stank higher still, hence its nickname of "Auld Reekie".

Princes Street

Latitude
55.95136° or 55° 57′ 5″ north
Longitude
-3.20098° or 3° 12′ 4″ west
Elevation
233 feet (71 metres)
Open location code
9C7RXQ2X+GJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 502531490
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­platform
Geo­Names ID
7303815
Wiki­data ID
Q1548664
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Princes Street” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شارع برنسز”
  • Basque: “Princes Street”
  • Catalan: “Princes Street”
  • Chinese: “王子街”
  • Danish: “Princes Street”
  • Dutch: “Princes Street”
  • Esperanto: “Princaro-Strato”
  • Estonian: “Princes Street”
  • French: “Princes Street”
  • German: “Princes Street”
  • Hebrew: “רחוב פרינסס”
  • Irish: “Sràid nam Prionnsachan”
  • Irish: “Sràid nam Prionnsan”
  • Italian: “Princes Street”
  • Japanese: “プリンセス・ストリート”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Princes Street”
  • Polish: “Princes Street”
  • Portuguese: “Princes Street”
  • Russian: “Princes Street”
  • Russian: “Принсес-стрит”
  • Russian: “Принцес-стрит”
  • Scots: “Princes Street”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Sràid nam Prionnsan”
  • Spanish: “Princes Street”
  • Welsh: “Princes Street”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Princes Street”. Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.