Tour Scotland Photograph Paisley Close Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of Paisley Close in Edinburgh, Scotland. A close is the name for an alley in Scotland. Originally owned by George Henderson of Fordell, who sold the land to Henry Paisley in 1711. On the Sunday morning of November 24th, 1861, the adjacent 250-year-old tenement in Bailie Fyfe's Close collapsed, killing thirty five people. The image sculpted at the entrance to the close is that of Joseph McIver, a young survivor of the tradgedy, who was pulled to safety after rescuers heard his call of " Heave awa‚ chaps, ah'm no‚ deid yet ".



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Tour Scotland Panorama Photograph Edinburgh

Tour Scotland panorama photograph of Edinburgh, Scotland. The term panorama was originally coined by the Irish painter Robert Barker to describe his panoramic paintings of Edinburgh.

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Tour Scotland Photograph Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of Edinburgh, Scotland. This is the capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish city, after Glasgow. Edinburgh is the seat of the Scottish Parliament. The city was one of the major centres of the Enlightenment, led by the University of Edinburgh, earning it the nickname Athens of the North.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Scottish Broom Edinburgh

Tour Scotland photograph of Scottish Broom on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, Scotland. The name of the House of Plantagenet, rulers of England in the Middle Ages, was derived from common broom, which was then known as " planta genista " in Latin. The plant was used as a heraldic badge by Geoffrey V of Anjou and five other Plantagenet kings of England as a royal emblem. The " broomscod ", or seed pod, was the personal emblem of King Charles VI of France.



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Tour Scotland Photograph Video Dugald Stewart Monument

Tour Scotland photograph of the Dugald Stewart Monument on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, Scotland. The Dugald Stewart Monument is a memorial to the Scottish philosopher Dugald Stewart. It is situated on top of Calton Hill, overlooking Edinburgh city centre. The monument was built in 1831 to the design of architect William Henry Playfair, and modelled on the Choragic Monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece.



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