Christmas market.About 2.6million people visited the market, which was held at East Princes Street Gardens for seven weeks.Pictures of the aftermath showed the site in a terrible state, as heritage campaigners urged for a rethink on mass tourism in Edinburgh.It has now been revealed the cost to repair the gardens was more than £150,000 – three times higher than previous years.Producers of the Christmas market, Underbelly, paid the City of Edinburgh Council in full for the works as is part of their contract to deliver the event.But the council also paid an additional £40,000 for drainage work on the site which led to the delay in the gardens reopening fully to the public until just a few weeks ago.Underbelly said this year there was more.
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