View to the north from

Edinburgh Castle

Looking over Princes Street Gardens and Princes Street
towards Leith and the Firth of Forth

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View from Edinburgh Castle

This view looks to the NE from Edinburgh Castle.

From left to right across the picture are:

-  Register House (low building on extreme left)

-  Balmoral Hotel (with clock tower)

-  Observatory (on Calton Hill)

-  National Monument (on Calton Hill)

-  Nelson Monument (on Calton Hill)

-  Royal High School (dark, in front of Calton Hill)

-  Governor's House for Calton Jail (jail now gone, in front of Royal High School)

-  New St Andrew House (Government buildings built in 1930s on site of the old jail)

In the bottom-right corner of the picture are:

-  Waverley Bridge (with multi-coloured Airport and Tour Buses waiting on the bridge).

-  The roof of Waverley Station (behind Waverley Bridge)

-  North Bridge (further to the east, behind the roof of Waverley Station).).

In the view below, we zoom-out to see Princes Street Gardens and the National Gallery of Scotland in the foreground and the Firth of Forth in the background:

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