Charlotte Square

This pretty much host the book festival every year without fail. It has some trees, some grass and a statue in the middle of it. It was quite nice to be right up close to the statue at the book festival too. Usually i see it from afar. To be honest not sure if you can go into the gardens any other time?

One of the grandest locations in Edinburgh, Charlotte Square is a destination (and a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in itself, epitomising the gracious architecture, spacious leafy streets and slight snootiness of the New Town. Once a prime address for the city’s elite, it still houses the official residence of the First Minister, as a shiny brass plate outside the door announces. It’s not surprising that the square is also the home of the National Trust for Scotland, whose central offices can be found at No. 28, and who also own the Georgian House across the square. Various other important institutions line the square, including the Scottish National Archive on the West side, as well as many well-​heeled businesses.
Like many Edinburgh squares, Charlotte Square has a lovely green park in the centre. Annoyingly, though, it’s closed to the public for most of the year, so all you can do is rattle the padlock and peer through the railings at the immaculately kept grass and the statue of Prince Albert in the middle. Only in late August, when the Book Festival springs up there, can you at least gain access, at which time the volume of visitors rapidly transforms the park into a swamp-​like expanse of smelly mud.