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Edinburgh Town Guide, National Monument, 6K

Situated on the top of Calton Hill is Edinburgh's National Monument, one of the more unusual of the city's sights.

Edinburgh Town Guide, National Monument, 9K

Edinburgh Town Guide, The Monument, 1K In the 1820's it was decided that a monument should be erected in Edinburgh to commemorate the Scottish soldiers who died in the Napoleonic Wars of 1815.

The design that was eventually chosen for this monument was a replica of the Parthenon in Greece and so, despite the fact that only half the necessary funds had been raised, work began in 1826.

Edinburgh Town Guide, Edinburgh's Disgrace, 2K However, three years later the funds had run out with only 12 of the columns completed. The result is a remarkably intact "ruin" that was once so unpopular it was nicknamed "Edinburgh's Disgrace".





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