Calton Hill in Edinburgh is the city's most prominent elevation at 103 meters high. It is at the east end of Princes Street. On Calton Hill are the National Monument (an unfinished Parthenon replica by William Henry Playfair), the Nelson Monument, the Dugald Stewart Monument, the Playfair Monument, the Parliament Cairn, the old Royal High School, Robert Burns Monument, Political Martyrs' Monument, American Civil War Memorial, Old Observatory House and City Observatory. Since 1887 the Portuguese cannon has been on the hill.

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Location: New Town/Broughton, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom

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