Princes Street Gardens
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Princes Street Gardens are two adjacent public parks in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland, lying in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. The Gardens were created in the 1820s following the long draining of the Nor Loch and building of the New Town, beginning in the 1760s.
East Princes Street Gardens in 2005, looking north-east from The Mound, showing the Scott Monument (l), Balmoral Hotel (c) and Waverley Station (r) with the North Bridge behind it
Glasgow-bound train about to enter the Haymarket Tunnel
East Princes St Gardens
Princes Street and the gardens in 2010
Scottish National Gallery
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The National is the national art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound in central Edinburgh, close to Princes Street. The building was designed in a neoclassical style by William Henry Playfair, and first opened to the public in 1859.
The National building and Royal Scottish Academy building, viewed from the South (2005)
Edinburgh Castle and National Gallery (c. 1865)
Twin porticoes at the main entrance with the original name inscribed on the frieze.
Playfair's ionic columns