The Little Edinburgh Project 13 - The Acropolis

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The Little Edinburgh Project

This is Little Edinburgh, it is a series of shots I have taken around the city of Edinburgh in Scotland over the years. It is called Little Edinburgh because the focus of the project is to take photos in a way as to show the city in miniature using the tilt-shift effect. Edinburgh is an international cosmopolitan city but still somehow has a small town feel to it. I cannot walk down the street without recognising someone I know. So with that in mind it felt appropriate to create a vision of Edinburgh that makes it look very small, almost like a toy town.

The Acropolis

The Acropolis, or rather as it is actually called: The National Monument of Scotland, on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, is Scotland's national memorial to the Scottish soldiers and sailors who died fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. We just call it the acropolis as the designers (architects) wanted to model it after the parthenon in Athens.

The whole thing was going to cost £42,000 and would feature catacombs underneath to house the most prominent dead of scotland.. they described it as a 'scottish valhalla'. It was designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair in 1823 and the contractors hired to build it were William Wallace & Sons (I'm not kidding). Playfair is Scotlands most famous and prominent architects of the 19th century.. almost every iconic landmark in the city was designed by him.

Anyway, they only managed to raised £26,000 so construction was halted in 1826, only 3 years after the project began. This gave rise to several nicknames such as "Scotland's Disgrace", "Edinburgh's Disgrace", "the Pride and Poverty of Scotland" and "Edinburgh's Folly".

Nowadays those nicknames have been forgotten and people tend to head up to the acropolis for beautiful sunsets, picnics, day drinking and of course for some first class romancing.


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