Princes Street

Princes Street in Edinburgh is now the main shopping street in the city center, although it was originally designed as a residential street. It is the southernmost street of the New Town, it is between Lothian Road in the west and Leith Street in the east. Since on the southern edge of the road are barely building, you have beautiful views over Princes Street Gardens, the Old Town and Edinburgh Castle. Princes Street is mostly closed to private traffic.

Originally Princes Street should after the patron saint of Edinburgh are named and St. Giles Street hot, but King George III could not make friends with it and disagreed. Finally, it was named after his sons, Duke of Rothesay (later King George IV), and Frederick, Duke of York.

During construction of the New Town, the lake was drained and Nor'Loch a public park, Princes Street Gardens created. Here you will find among other things an outdoor concert stage, the Ross Bandstand, the Scott Monument, a war memorial and a flower clock.

Among the department stores on the north side there is also the famous Jenners department store. In addition to the gardens are on the south side of Waverley railway station, the Balmoral Hotel and at the foot of the Mound, the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland.

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