Grassmarket

thumb|Aerial view of Grassmarket thumb|The Grassmarket, with Edinburgh Castle towering above it The Grassmarket is a historic market place, street and event space in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. In relation to the rest of the city it lies in a hollow, well below surrounding ground levels.

==Location== The Grassmarket is located at the foot of the Castle Rock, on which Edinburgh Castle stands. It forms part of one of the main east-west routes through the Old Town. It adjoins the Cowgatehead/Cowgate and Candlemaker Row at the east end, the West Bow (the lower end of Victoria Street) in the north-east corner, King's Stables Road to the north-west, and the West Port to the west. Leading off from the south-west corner is the Vennel, on the east side of which can still be seen some of the best surviving parts of the Flodden and Telfer town walls. thumb|The Grassmarket tenements with the castle shrouded in a typical Edinburgh haar