Picardy Place

Picardy Place is a tram stop in Edinburgh, Scotland. Picardy Place is situated near the art gallery Yaniv Edery Gallery, as well as near Fayre Play.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: St Mary’s Cathedral and Calton Hill.

St Mary’s Cathedral

Church

Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, also known as St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Calton Hill is a hill in central Edinburgh, Scotland, situated beyond the east end of Princes Street and included in the city's UNESCO World Heritage Site. Calton Hill is situated 1,100 feet southeast of Picardy Place.

Edinburgh Playhouse

Theater building

Photo: kim traynor, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seats it is the largest theatre in Scotland and second largest in the United Kingdom, after the Hammersmith Apollo. The theatre is owned by Ambassador Theatre Group. Edinburgh Playhouse is situated 450 feet east of Picardy Place.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broughton and Bellevue.

Broughton

Suburb

Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Broughton is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland. Broughton was an ancient feudal barony that existed outside of Edinburgh before it was later incorporated into the city as urban development took place in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Bellevue

Neighborhood

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

New Town

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

New Town of Edinburgh is 250 years old, in contrast to the Old Town 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.

Picardy Place

Type: Tram stop
Categories: railway stop, transport stop, and transport
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

55.9567° or 55° 57′ 24″ north

Longitude

-3.18715° or 3° 11′ 14″ west

Operator

Edinburgh Trams Ltd.

Network

Edinburgh Trams

Open location code

9C7RXR47+M4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 8071098686

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=stop_position

OpenStreetMap feature

railway=tram_stop

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Highlights: Yaniv Edery Gallery and Fayre Play.

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