Garden
Princes Street Gardens
Sunken valley garden with a Victorian bandstand, floral clock, and sweeping castle views.
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Location
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About this audio guide
This guide to Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh opens with the strict rulebook that governed the garden when it was laid out over the drained Nor Loch in the 1820s: no dogs, no smoking, no prams, and absolutely no cricket. From there it traces how a distiller's 1877 gift of a bandstand set the space on a very different course, culminating in the open-air stage that opened in the west gardens in 1935. Listen for how a garden built purely for looking slowly made room for noise.
This audio guide was created using AI.