Calton Hill, Edinburgh
Calton Hill (also 'Caltoun' or 'Caldoun'). Home to buildings and monuments such as St Andrew's House, the National Monument, the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the old Royal High School, the Robert Burns Monument, the Political Martyrs' Monument and the City Observatory.
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Calton Hill, Edinburgh
The National Monument of Scotland - a memorial to the Scottish soldiers and sailors who died fighting in the Napoleonic Wars.
Designed 1823-1826 by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, construction took place 1826-1829; at which point the project was simply abandoned due to lack of funds. It's known locally as 'Scotland's Disgrace'.
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