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Nov. 10th, 2006 08:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaala[Adapted from email]
After my job interview today, I took the opportunity (since I was in the neighbourhood) to climb Calton Hill to see the quaint/bizarre 19th century monuments, views of the city and the old graveyard. And, of course, I took my camera.
Calton_Hill_panorama - A stitched-together panorama of the view off the Hill towards the Firth (estuary). View its actual size and then scroll with the mouse. The pillars were meant to be a Napoleonic wars monument, a copy of the Coliseum, but the city ran out of money before completion. Next to that is the telescope-shaped Nelson monument. Then the former Royal Observatory, now the home of the Astronomical Society. Then there's the New Town and all the coastal suburbs. On the far right in the distance is Arthur's Seat in Holyrood park, the highest point in Greater Edinburgh.
After my job interview today, I took the opportunity (since I was in the neighbourhood) to climb Calton Hill to see the quaint/bizarre 19th century monuments, views of the city and the old graveyard. And, of course, I took my camera.
Calton_Hill_panorama - A stitched-together panorama of the view off the Hill towards the Firth (estuary). View its actual size and then scroll with the mouse. The pillars were meant to be a Napoleonic wars monument, a copy of the Coliseum, but the city ran out of money before completion. Next to that is the telescope-shaped Nelson monument. Then the former Royal Observatory, now the home of the Astronomical Society. Then there's the New Town and all the coastal suburbs. On the far right in the distance is Arthur's Seat in Holyrood park, the highest point in Greater Edinburgh.
