What To See Edinburgh
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Ann Street
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Assembly Hall
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Assembly Rooms
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Blackford Hill
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Braid Hills
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Calton Hill
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Camera Obscura
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Charlotte Square
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City Art Centre
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The Colonies
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Corstorphine
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Cowgate
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Craigmillar Castle
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Cramond
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Dean Village
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Duddingston
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Edinburgh Castle Museums
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Edinburgh Exchange
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Edinburgh's Festival Centre - The Hub
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Edinburgh Zoo
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George Street
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The Georgian House
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Gladstone's Land
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The Grassmarket
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Greyfriars Kirk
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Hanover Street
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The Heart of Midlothian
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Holyrood Abbey
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Holyrood Park
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Huntly House Museum
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John Knox's House
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Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
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The Lawnmarket
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Leith
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The Meadows
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Mercat Cross
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Morningside
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The Mound
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Murrayfield
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Museum of Childhood
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Parliament House
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Parliament Square
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The People's Story museum
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Princes Street
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Princes Street Gardens
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Queen Street
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Register House
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Royal High School
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Royal Scottish Academy
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Royal scottish Observatory
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The Royal Yacht Britannia
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St Andrew Square
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St Giles Cathedral
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St Mary's episcopal Cathedral
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Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre
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The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery
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Scottish National Portrait Gallery
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The Scottish Parliament
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Stockbridge
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Swanston
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Talbot Rice Art Gallery
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The Tron Kirk
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The University of Edinburgh
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Victoria Street
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The Water of Leith
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Waterloo Place
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Waverley Market (princes mall)
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Edinburgh Exchange
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Worth Seeing
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It's well worth walking up the Lothian Road and along the West Approach Road to take a look at the £350-million-plus development
known as the Edinburgh Exchange, the new financial district. The development plan was launched in 1988, after the construction
of the palatial Sheraton Grand on what was then the rather run-down lower reaches of the Lothian Road. A clutch of buildings
has gone up, centred around the Edinburgh International Conference Centre, opened in 1995 and designed by Terry Farrell. Building
continues but the existing monuments to late 20th-century commerce, all soaring brick, stone and glass, are impressive enough.
Worth noticing are the Standard Life building on the Lothian Road, with its fine gates and railings, and the impressive Scottish
Widows building on Morrison Street.
Address:
Lothian Road and West Approach Road
Bus:
11, 15, 24, 45
Accessible:
Good
Other:
Princes Street
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