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Best Monuments
Scott Monument
This Gothic space rocket parked amid the greenery of Princes Street
Gardens celebrates Scotland's most famous historical novelist, Sir Walter Scott. (
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Nelson Monument
Built in the shape of an upturned telescope, this slender tower on the
summit of Calton Hill was built to commemorate Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805. (
Melville Monument
Edinburgh's answer to London's Nelson's Column towers over St
Andrew Sq, topped by a statue of Henry Dundas (1742−1811), the most powerful Scottish
politician of his time. (
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National Monument
An unfinished folly atop Calton Hill; its Greek temple−like appear-
ance gave Edinburgh the nickname 'Athens of the North'. (
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