The National Monument

Calton Hill

Designed by William Playfair and C R Cockerell to commemorate those who died in the Napoleonic Wars, the common story is that the National Monument was conceived as a full-scale replica of the Parthenon. It was to be funded by local Edinburgh merchants, but money ran out and only a fragment was ever actually built. The small portion that still stands today became popularly known as "Edinburgh's Disgrace".
However, the original architectural drawings only show the portion that currently stands, which some believe suggests that this was all that was ever inteded to be built.

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