Attraction in Scotland
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Jarlshof at the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland is one of the most remarkable archaeological sites in Europe, a complex of superimposed settlements representing nearly four…
Dryburgh Abbey Scottish Borders • TD6 0RQDryburgh Abbey in the Scottish Borders near Melrose is the most completely preserved and most romantically beautiful of the four great Border abbeys, a Premonstratensian monastery…
Bass Rock East Lothian Berwickshire • EH39 5PPThe Bass Rock is a volcanic island of dramatic appearance rising from the Firth of Forth near North Berwick in East Lothian, a 107-metre plug of basalt whose sheer white-encrusted…
Kelvingrove Art Gallery Glasgow City • G3 8AGKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow is the most visited museum in Scotland and one of the most visited in the United Kingdom outside London, a magnificent red sandstone…
Burns Cottage Alloway South Ayrshire • KA7 4PQBurns Cottage in Alloway near Ayr in Ayrshire is the birthplace of Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, a thatched cottage of 1757 built by the poet's father William Burnes and…
Macduff Marine Aquarium Aberdeenshire • AB44 1SLMacduff Marine Aquarium is a small but remarkably engaging public aquarium situated on the northeastern coast of Scotland, in the historic fishing town of Macduff in…
Italian Chapel Orkney KW17 2RZThe Italian Chapel on Lamb Holm in Orkney is one of the most moving and most extraordinary small buildings in Britain, a chapel created by Italian prisoners of war interned on the…
Ring of Brodgar Orkney Orkney Islands • KW16 3LBThe Ring of Brodgar on the Mainland of Orkney is one of the largest and most impressive Neolithic stone circles in Britain, a ring of originally sixty standing stones set within a…
St Fillans Cave Fife • KY10 2LESt Fillans Cave, located at the coordinates 56.21325, -2.72758, sits within the coastal town of Pittenweem on the East Neuk of Fife in Scotland. This is a genuine holy cave…
Glenshee Ski Centre Cairngorms Perth and Kinross • PH10 7QEGlenshee Ski Centre on the slopes of Cairnwell in the Cairngorm Mountains between Braemar and Blairgowrie is the largest ski area in Britain, a network of runs on four mountains…
New Lanark UNESCO Village South Lanarkshire • ML11 9DBNew Lanark is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the banks of the River Clyde in South Lanarkshire, a planned cotton mill community of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth…
The Falkirk Wheel Falkirk • FK1 4RSThe Falkirk Wheel in central Scotland is a rotating boat lift connecting the Forth and Clyde Canal with the Union Canal, built as the centrepiece of the Millennium Link project to…
Melrose Abbey Borders Scottish Borders • TD6 9LGMelrose Abbey in the Scottish Borders is the finest Gothic ruin in Scotland, a Cistercian monastery of the twelfth century rebuilt in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries after…
Inverewe Garden Highland Highland • IV22 2LGInverewe Garden near Poolewe in Wester Ross is the most extraordinary horticultural achievement in Scotland, a garden of over 2,500 plant species created by Osgood Mackenzie from…
Glenfinnan Viaduct Highland • PH37 4LTThe Glenfinnan Viaduct is the most celebrated piece of railway engineering in Scotland and one of the most famous in the world, a concrete viaduct of twenty-one arches carrying…