Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street

Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street is a hotel in , . Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street is situated nearby to , as well as near the art gallery .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scott Monument and Edinburgh Castle.

Photo: Schatir, Public domain.
The is a Victorian Gothic to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the in Havana.

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 2,000 feet southwest of Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street.

Art gallery
The National is the national art gallery of . It is located on in central , close to . The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859. is situated 770 feet south of Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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.

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".

Neighborhood
is a district of , the capital of . It lies to the south east of , west of Leith Walk and south of , incorporating the easternmost extent of Edinburgh's UNESCO heritage site.

Mercure Edinburgh City Princes Street

Latitude
55.9529° or 55° 57′ 10″ north
Longitude
-3.1945° or 3° 11′ 40″ west
Elevation
249 feet (76 metres)
Open location code
9C7RXR34+55
Geo­Names ID
9951257
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