Edinburgh
Edinburgh
+ Exploring Edinburgh
Sights
* Ann Street
* Assembly Hall
* Assembly Rooms
* Blackford Hill
* Braid Hills
* Calton Hill
* Camera Obscura
* Charlotte Square
* City Art Centre
* The Colonies
* Corstorphine
* Cowgate
* Craigmillar Castle
* Cramond
* Dean Village
* Duddingston
* Edinburgh Castle Museums
* Edinburgh Exchange
* Edinburgh's Festival Centre - The Hub
* Edinburgh Zoo
* George Street
* The Georgian House
* Gladstone's Land
* The Grassmarket
* Greyfriars Kirk
* Hanover Street
* The Heart of Midlothian
* Holyrood Abbey
* Holyrood Park
* Huntly House Museum
* John Knox's House
* Lady Stair's House, The Writers' Museum
* The Lawnmarket
* Leith
* The Meadows
* Mercat Cross
* Morningside
* The Mound
* Murrayfield
* Museum of Childhood
* Parliament House
* Parliament Square
* The People's Story museum
* Princes Street
* Princes Street Gardens
* Queen Street
* Register House
* Royal High School
* Royal Scottish Academy
* Royal scottish Observatory
* The Royal Yacht Britannia
* St Andrew Square
* St Giles Cathedral
* St Mary's episcopal Cathedral
* Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre
* The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Dean Gallery
* Scottish National Portrait Gallery
* The Scottish Parliament
* Stockbridge
* Swanston
* Talbot Rice Art Gallery
* The Tron Kirk
* The University of Edinburgh
* Victoria Street
* The Water of Leith
* Waterloo Place
* Waverley Market (princes mall)
Vicinity
+ Vicinity
Walk/Drive
Food&Drink
In The Know
Did You Know?
( Do not miss )
Its situation alone makes Princes Street one of Europe's great thoroughfares, a straight and stately division between the Old Town and the New, with views south across Princes Street Gardens to the fabulous silhouette of the castle and Royal Mile. Lined with department and high street stores, Princes Street is where Edinburgh people come to shop, and its pavements are thronged throughout the day. Built from 1769, it was named after George III's two sons, the monarch having rejected the name St Giles Street, after Edinburgh's patron saint. Princes Street once presented the elegant and harmonious face of restrained Georgian architecture, but began to deteriorate in the 19th century and has gone downhill ever since, as dignified buildings have been torn down and replaced with some of the worst excrescences of the mid to late 20th century.
Address: Princes Street
Restaurant: Wide range of cafés, bars and restaurants (Inexpensive-Moderately priced)
Bus: 2, 10, 15, 26, 33, 45
Accessible: Very good
Other: National Gallery of Scotland; New Town; Royal Scottish Academy; Scott Monument
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