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East Princes Street Gardens

East Princes Street Gardens is a park in , . East Princes Street Gardens is situated nearby to , as well as near .
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Gallery and Scott Monument.

Art gallery
Photo: 瑞丽江的河水, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 southwest of East Princes Street Gardens.

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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 situated 360 feet north of East Princes Street Gardens.

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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 1,700 feet southwest of East Princes Street Gardens.

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: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the marketing name given to the mixed use redevelopment of the former site, in , . It was master-planned by architect Foster + Partners and takes its name from the fact it is a quarter mile from Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile and measures a quarter mile from corner to corner.

East Princes Street Gardens

Latitude
55.9514° or 55° 57′ 5″ north
Longitude
-3.19361° or 3° 11′ 37″ west
Open location code
9C7RXR24+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 5585005
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
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In Other Languages

“East Princes Street Gardens” goes by many names.
  • Korean: “이스트 프린스 스트리트 가든”

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Highlights include Waverley Bridge and Museum on the Mound.

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