2024.00503b Looking south across East Princes Street Gardens to the Old Town on the ridge.

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The view across East Princes Street Gardens (the drained Nor' Loch) up to the Old Town--the Royal Mile stretching from Edinburgh Castle down to Holyrood Palace.
Lower right is the National Gallery Complex.
Top, from right to left (see notes): The Camera Obscura with its black and white top, New College, University of Edinburgh--the Divinity School, the spire of the former Tolbooth Church, the Headquarters of the Bank of Scotland, St. Giles Cathedral.

This is the view that American William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) described in his Letter XXII (Project Gutenberg):-

"Edinburgh, July 17, 1845.
I had been often told, since I arrived in England, that in Edinburgh, I should see the finest city I ever saw. I confess that I did not feel quite sure of this, but it required scarcely more than a single look to show me that it was perfectly true. It is hardly possible to imagine a nobler site for a town than that of Edinburgh, and it is built as nobly. You stand on the edge of the deep gulf which separates the old and the new town, and before you on the opposite bank rise the picturesque buildings of the ancient city—"
"Piled deep and massy, close and high,"

Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. He was one of two men chiefly responsible for promoting the creation of Central Park, New York.

Edinburgh Old and New Towns are a UNESCO World Heritage Site..

Taken in: UK / Scotland / Edinburgh (show map)

Taken on: May 16, 2024

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Camera: Sony DSC-RX100M3, f/3.2, 1/160 sec, 8.8mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

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