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Princes Street

Heritage, vision and the future of Edinburgh’s grand boulevard

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Nov 29, 2025
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PRINCES Street has long occupied an uneasy place in Edinburgh’s civic life: simultaneously its most recognisable address and one of its most contested.

Both our shop window and our common ground, it is the point at which the ordered confidence of the New Town meets the drama of the Old Town.

As is well documented, its magnificence was carefully curated,…

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