This is a hill overlooking Princess street in Edinburgh. It is one of Edinburgh's seven hills (though I would be hard pushed to name all seven they include Blackford Hill, Arthur's seat and the castle hill.) It has a tower with a statue of Nelson on top. The tower has a stirs on the inside and you can get to the statue, I think the entry fee is about $2. You get an amazing view of the city from this vantage point.

There is also a large Greek looking monument that is unfinished. The monument is known as a folly, When Edinburgh was the Capital City of Scotland the monument was commissioned. Edinburgh is known as the Athens of the North (due to the nice architecture and many public statues) and this monument was supposed to add a Parthenon-like building to the skyline. The money ran out and the city councillors went to Glasgow to ask for funds. Glasgow said no! so the partially built replica remains on top of Calton hill.

Calton Hill is also the location of the original buildings for the Royal Scottish Observatory. These buildings are still on site. The timekeeping for the city used to be done here and an elaborate system of signalling was invented between the Observatory and the castle so that the Observatory could tell the castle when to fire the one o clock gun. One of the buildings on the observatory site has a ball on a stick. At one o clock the ball would drop. Ships harboured in the Firth of Forth could see this ball drop and calibrate their ships clock by it. Eventually in the 18th century the Royal Observatory moved to Blackford Hill,

The hill features in a few song lyrics by the band Belle and Sebastian.

The Beltane festival proceeds around this hill.

The last time I was there a man was walking his Komodo Dragon and it ran into the grass, we were all running over the hill looking for his lizard.