#Calton Hill

[scotland]

The National Monument of Scotland, situated on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, commemorates Scottish soldiers and sailors who died in the Napoleonic Wars. Designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, it was intended to resemble the Parthenon in Athens.

Construction began in 1826 but halted in 1829 due to lack of funds, leaving it incomplete with only twelve columns. This unfinished state has earned it the nickname “Scotland’s Disgrace.”

Despite this, the monument is a significant landmark, offering panoramic views of the city and symbolising Edinburgh’s neoclassical architectural heritage.

[hanacassiopeia]

D.Gray-man's Edinstown, Calton Hill part 1

Art by Hoshino Katsura

Picture by me

[shutterandsentence]

If November were a city, it would be Edinburgh.

Photo: Edinburgh, Scotland

[scotianostra]

A few shots of Edinburgh with the camera from Calton Hill yesterday afternoon.

[beautyinsteadofashes]

i need you all to feel sorry for me I WENT ON HOLIDAY TO EDINBURGH FOR CHRISTMAS WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING THAT NORTH AND SOUTH WAS FILMED THERE UNTIL I GOT HOME

[tourise]

“I am only here for relaxing”

[alwayswonderingandwandering]

temple

[embraphotos]

Calton Hill, EH7

[mydawnsky]

Sunset in Edinburgh

[noconcessions]

[dontymon]

Very encouraging rally at Calton hill today.

Police did an excellent job by staying the fuck away.

[scotland]

Glowing bright fires and the pounding of drums ascend upon Calton Hill… 🔥 It must be time for Beltane Fire Society!

scotland.co

[raffaellopalandri]

Photography of the Day - A Tourist on Calton Hill

In Edinburgh A Tourist on Calton Hill – Photo by Raffaello Palandri

[arhidarium]

[scotianostra]

Quite an interesting drawing, it's titled "The Martyrs Obelisk" but there is so much going on in this composition from 1845.

The view is from the parapet of North Bridge, not the one there now, an earlier emtity. I think it is all out of scale, the oblisk looks higher than the NelsonTrinity College Church Monument. The church on the bottm right is the old Trinity College Church, it was "moved" when Waverley Station was enlarged in the 1870's. I say moved as they took it down, marking all the stonework with the object of rebuilding it.

Well that was the plan, but during the ensuing years much of the "Church" was stolen, as it lay unprotected at the bottom of Calton Hill. In the end, barely enough stones to rebuild a small portion of the original church were salvaged. Today the new church on Jeffrey Street is no more. It was demolished in 1964 but a small section known as the Trinity College Apse (formerly the Brass Rubbing Centre) still survives on Chalmers Close behind modern-day Jurys Inn. Many of the painted numbers on the stonework from when the original church was dismantled can still be seen. The remaining structure is protected by Historic Scotland as a Category A listed building.

The other buildings along to the left are all gone, very few old buildings along Calton Road are left from this time, if any.

The dark grey areas along the middle of the drawing was mainly the Old Calton Cemetery and Old Calton Gaol, it was demolished to make way for St Andrews House, although the Governers House was spared. On the far right you can just see The Old Royal High School.

The National Monument, the City Observatory and the Dugald Stewart Monument. are visible in light greyto the left and right of the Martyr's Monument Obilisk.

Most of the foreground in the scene nowadays is taken up by the glass roof of Waverley Station.

The pic is from "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII. Artist Smyth

[alexisgeorge]

15 avril:

Visite d'Edinburg J1