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St Andrew Square

St Andrew Square is a garden square in , Scotland, located at the east end of George Street. The construct of St Andrew Square began in 1772, as the first part of the , designed by James Craig.
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  • Opening hours: 7:00 AM—8:00 PM
  • Type: Garden
  • Description: city square in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Saint Andrew Square Edinburgh”, “Saint Andrew Square, Edinburgh”, “St Andrew Square Edinburgh”, “St Andrew Square Garden”, “St Andrew Square, Edinburgh”, “St Andrew’s Square Edinburgh”, “St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh”, “St Andrews Square Edinburgh”, “St Andrews Square, Edinburgh”, “St. Andrew Square, Edinburgh”, “St. Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh”, and “St. Andrews Square, Edinburgh”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Scottish National Portrait Gallery and Scott Monument.

Art gallery
National Galleries Scotland: Portrait is an art museum on Queen Street, . Portrait holds the national collections of portraits, all of which are of, but not necessarily by, Scots. is situated 470 feet north of St Andrew Square.

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 situated 680 feet south of St Andrew Square.

Photo: Stephencdickson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 2,500 feet southwest of St Andrew Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.

Photo: PerryPlanet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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".

Suburb
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an area of , . 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.

St Andrew Square

Latitude
55.95421° or 55° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-3.19316° or 3° 11′ 35″ west
Inception
1772
Open location code
9C7RXR34+MP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 78693281
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­garden
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q7592419
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“St Andrew Square” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “圣安得鲁广场 (爱丁堡)”
  • Chinese: “圣安得鲁广场”
  • Dutch: “St Andrew Square”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان سانت اندرو”
  • Esperanto: “Placo de Sankta Andreo”
  • Finnish: “St Andrew Square”
  • Hebrew: “כיכר אנדראס הקדוש”
  • Korean: “세인트 앤드류 스퀘어”
  • Spanish: “St Andrew Square, Edimburgo”
  • Spanish: “St Andrew Square”

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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 “St Andrew Square”. Photo: Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0.