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The third part of The Royal Mile is High Street, which starts just in St. Giles.
The first thing you see is Mercat Croos, formerly the meeting place of merchants and traders, and has been marked by a temple that was rebuilt in the nineteenth century and is decorated on top with a unicorn, and curiously the national symbol of Scotland.

face Mercat Cross can see City Chambers, is the city council, which was built over the mysterious Mary King's Close.

But What is Mary King's Close?, Edinburgh has always been a place marked by the legends about the ghosts that seem to populate the city. Mary King's Close is today a haunting place visited by curious tourists who expect to see ghosts and also for those who want to learn more about what centuries ago became a center of horror and human suffering.
Mary King's Close is now in what is known as the Old Town of Edinburgh, the Royal Mile and on the very surface of the city. Centuries ago it was a cluster of narrow streets on which posteiormente was constructed, coming to have seen it with up to seven stories high. Specifically, under the High Street begins and ends under the town council.

Where does the name of Mary King?. According to some versions Mary King was a woman born in the late sixteenth century and that, back in 1616 married Thomas Nimmo, a merchant of the city. ; When he died in 1629, Mary decided to move in with her 4 children and it was at a street known as Alexander King's Close. This is the street acquired its name ending for reasons unknown.

But the most important and tragic case in 1645, when the Black Death comes to Edinburgh. It is believed he came from Europe embarked on ships that docked at Leith Docks. And then destroyed the population of Edinburgh , later spreading throughout Scotland because of fleas infected with the disease and the rats that carried it.

Edinburgh ordered a quarantine period and sick had to get home and put in their windows rolled up a white flag as a signal. Every day, doctors wearing masks, capes and leather Guanda (to prevent fleas from biting them could), I approached some comidad and drink. But there came a time when this was not enough.

plague spread so fast and so explosive that it was decided to close completely all that part of the city, until everything was gone. This was done ....

In Mary King's Close will make a trip to the darker past of the city, a few years really terrifying to those who touched them to live them. Remembering the day the door of that area was closed and left inside to so many patients alone with an inevitable death, painful and withering, who died locked in the most terrible misery. Inside you will find streets, houses and household goods from HACD 300 years and you can even "enjoy" theater that will show you how people lived in those gloomy days.


At the end of this part of the Royal Mile, we find the Museum of Childhood, which is dedicated to children and a large collection of books, toys and children's costumes.