The Dome

The Dome is a building on George Street in of , Scotland. It currently functions as a bar, restaurant and nightclub, although it was first built as the headquarters of the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1847.
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  • Type: Restaurant
  • Description: bank building in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, now used as a bar, restaurant and nightclub,
  • Also known as: “Edinburgh, 14 George Street, Commercial Bank”, “The Dome Bar and Grill”, and “The Dome, Edinburgh”
  • Address: 14 George Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2PF
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Edinburgh Castle and Scott Monument.

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 2,000 feet southwest of The Dome.

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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 600 feet southeast of The Dome.

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 930 feet south of The Dome.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include New Town and Old Town.

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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.

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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".

Neighborhood
, once an ancient village, has been part of since 1809. The village is most likely to have taken its name from mills erected to smelt and refine silver ore which had been found at Hilderstone in in 1607 or, alternatively, from some of the alchemical projects of James IV or James V.

The Dome

Latitude
55.95342° or 55° 57′ 12″ north
Longitude
-3.19551° or 3° 11′ 44″ west
Levels
2
Open location code
9C7RXR33+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
way 81125134
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­restaurant
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­bank
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q7730592
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Satellite Map

Discover The Dome from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to French—“The Dome” goes by many names.

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