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Holyrood Park

the Holyrood Park is part of Edinburgh .
Interesting places in Holyrood Park:

Scottish Parliament		Loch Shimashama
Climbing		The Scotsman HQ
ducks		Dynamic Earth
John McIntyre Centre		Macdonald Holyrood Hotel
Scottish Widows

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SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT BUILDING BACK WINDOWS
Made by woshiguilao
Scottish Parliament Building From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The new Scottish Parliament Building at Holyrood designed by the Catalan architect Enric Miralles and opened in October 2004.The Scottish Parliament Building (Scottish Gaelic: Pàrlamaid na h-Alba) is the home of the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, within the UNESCO World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh. Construction of the building commenced in June 1999 and the Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) held their first debate in the new building on Tuesday, 7 September 2004. The formal opening by Queen Elizabeth took place on 9 October 2004. Enric Miralles, the Catalan architect who designed the building, died before its completion. From 1999 until the opening of the new building in 2004, committee rooms and the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament were housed in the General Assembly Hall of the Church of Scotland located on The Mound in Edinburgh. Office and administrative accommodation in support of the Parliament were provided in buildings leased from the City of Edinburgh Council. The new Scottish Parliament Building brought together these different elements into one purpose built parliamentary complex, housing 129 MSPs and more than 1,000 staff and civil servants. From the outset, the building and its construction have proven to be highly controversial. The choices of location, architect, design, and construction company were all criticised by politicians, the media and the Scottish public. Scheduled to open in 2001, it did so in 2004, more than three years late with an estimated final cost of £414m, many times higher than initial estimates of between £10m and £40m.[8] A major public inquiry into the handling of the construction, chaired by the former Lord Advocate, Peter Fraser, was established in 2003. The inquiry concluded in September 2004 and criticised the management of the whole project from the realisation of cost increases down to the way in which major design changes were implemented. Despite these criticisms and a mixed public reaction, the building was welcomed by architectural academics and critics. The building aims to conceive a poetic union between the Scottish landscape, its people, its culture and the city of Edinburgh. This approach won the parliament building numerous awards including the 2005 Stirling Prize and has been described as a tour de force of arts and crafts and quality without parallel in the last 100 years of British architecture.


Edinburgh Holyrood Palace
Made by Claudia1967
Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh, Scotland 07 April 2005 Legend tells how Kind David I was hunting in the woodland that once covered this whole area, when he was attacked by a stag. A silver cloud appeared in the sky, from which descended a holy cross. At the sight of this the stag fled, and in acknowledgement of this miracle, King David founded the Monastery of the Holy Rood. The year was 1128, and it is from this time that Edinburgh's tumultuous religious history grew. It was not long before the humble monastery had grown into an abbey, and the lives of an illustrious trail of Scottish monarchs became entwined with this place. James II, III and IV were all married in the Abbey, James V and Charles I were both crowned here, and James III's grave is amongst those numbered here. It was one of the abbeys pillaged by the Earl of Hertford on his march through Scotland in 1544, and in 1688 it was plundered by a mob celebrating the accession of William of Orange. On that occasion the vaults were opened and the Royal coffins broken into. Among the objects removed was the head of Darnley. Subsequent restoration work culminated in the new roof in 1758. Ten years later this gave way, and was never repaired, and eventually the Abbey crumbled into the evocative ruins we see today.


Grand daughter at sculpture to Women's Rights and Democracy at Scottish Parliament
Made by Andrew Niddrie
Aoife Crummy stands beside her grandmother's contribution to Travelling the Distance sculpture by artist Shauna McMullan at The Scottish Parliament. The quote is above her head and reads AT 10, SHE CARRIED COAL UP LADDERS - DISTANCE EXCEEDED HEIGHT OF ST PAULS DAILY Helen Crummy is one of the 100 women marked in a work, about women and democracy. Helen Crummy says It is a tribute to the women of Craigmillar. She quotes Agnes Moffatt, one of the children coalbearers of Niddrie who gave evidence to the commission that helped outlaw women and children working in coalmines in the UK. www.scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/2006/12/14083206 .


Step Up
Made by musicmuse_ca
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. Climb the mountains and get their good tidings, Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but nature's sources never fail. --John Muir, Our National Parks (1901)


A political opening
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The Member's residences at Scotland's Parliament building in Edinburgh. Each jagged section is a window seat inside. Some might say politics is full of repeated patterns. Five points for the person that understands the title. ;)

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Climbing John McIntyre Centre Prestonfield House Hotel Prestonfield Golf Club

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