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.

Clockwise around the photo from the bottom-left corner are:

-  Tunnel on the railway line through Princes Street Gardens.

-  National Galleries of Scotland.

-  Scott Monument (dark)

-  Register House (low building in background)

-  Balmoral Hotel (with clock tower)

-  National Monument (on Calton Hill)

-  Nelson Monument (on Calton Hill)

-  North Berwick Law (hill about 20 miles away in East Lothian)

-  Bank of Scotland Head Office (light building)

In the centre of the photo are:

-  Waverley Station

-  Waverley Bridge (with different coloured buses in front of the station roof)

-  North Bridge (with three buses behind the station roof)

In the view below, we zoom-in to get a better view of Calton Hill and some of the buildings in the centre of the picture:

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