The New Town in Edinburgh is a beautiful area right smack bang in the centre of the city, contrasting greatly with it’s counterpart the Old Town. One straight and neat, in fact considered to be a masterpiece of city planning, the other jumbled and confused but layered in history. Let’s take a look at a very interesting little detail about the New Town…
Changing the namr of St. Giles’ Street to Prince’s Street meant of course that the association to a bunch of lepers remains to this day