Rose Street

The pedestrianised street between Princes Street and George Street Rose Street is undoubtedly one of the city's liveliest streets being usually associated with pub crawls. That's not to say there aren't any hidden treasures, you just might have to look a bit harder to find them.

Few revellers will have noticed the eight large pebble rose mosaics set into the road – each one is a different variation on the rose design.

Essential Edinburgh has plans to revive Rose Street's bohemian air, using the thoroughfare's literary links as a theme, are ongoing. To date these have included the installation of 24 poetry planters; the erection of decorative steel poetry panels in the windows of the BT Telephone Exchange, and the creation of a poetry wall at the rear of the Roxburghe Hotel.