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St James Quarter

St James Quarter is a new retail led, lifestyle district that fully integrates into and enhances Edinburgh’s City Centre providing an inspiring, attractive, and vibrant destination for locals and visitors to live, shop, eat, sleep and play. More than 250 years after Craig designed the district which would become New Town, St James Quarter continues the legacy he founded with new spaces for visitors to discover.

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St James Quarter Summer Sessions

St James Quarter Summer Sessions

20 Aug 2025 - 23 Aug 2025

A free music festival running at the same time as the main Edinburgh Festival, with 80 diverse acts from indie rock and alt-pop to jazz fusion, with DJs performing in the Galleria and six other venues within the quarter.

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