Allan Ramsay Monument

Allan Ramsay Monument is a memorial in , . Allan Ramsay Monument is situated nearby to , as well as near the art gallery .
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: monument in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Allan Ramsay Memorial” and “Allan Ramsay Monument, West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scottish National Gallery.

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is a historic castle in , Scotland. 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 1,300 feet southwest of Allan Ramsay Monument.

Art gallery
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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 450 feet southeast of Allan Ramsay Monument.

Square
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an artificial slope and road in central , Scotland, which connects Edinburgh's and . It was formed by dumping around 1,501,000 cartloads of earth excavated from the foundations of the New Town into Nor Loch, which was drained in 1765 and forms today's .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Town and New Town.

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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".

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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
Photo: Brian McNeil, CC BY 3.0.
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.

Allan Ramsay Monument

Latitude
55.95169° or 55° 57′ 6″ north
Longitude
-3.19731° or 3° 11′ 50″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR23+M3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 314597264
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q17570763
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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Floral clock and Royal Scottish Academy Building.

Nearby Places

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