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Scott Monument

The Scott Monument
Detail of the Scott Monument

The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the second-largest monument to a writer in the world after the José Martí monument in Havana.[1] It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the former Jenners building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels.

  1. ^ "Museums and galleries: Scott Monument". The City of Edinburgh Council. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.

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