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02 Oct Scotland Tour

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At Ireland and Scotland Luxury Tours we have a great nine/ten-day trip around Scotland. We begin at Cameron House for two nights. This allows us to visit Stirling Castle and Loch Lomond. Then we move through the Highlands to the Isle of Skye. We stay at Kinloch Lodge for...

06 Jul George Square, Glasgow

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The largest open space in central Glasgow, George Square, laid out in 1781 and named after George III, may be considered the centre of the city itself. In 1837 it was crowned by Glasgow’s tribute to the great Edinburgh novelist, Sir Walter Scott: an eighty-foot...

09 Mar Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire

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Stirling Castle, and the town itself, played an important role in the 13th and 14th century Wars of Independence; near here Bannockburn was fought and, seventeen years earlier, William Wallace routed the Earl of Surrey’s army at Stirling Bridge. The castle, still under military occupation,...

23 Feb New Town, Edinburgh

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In 1767 it was announced in Edinburgh that the architect James Craig was to be ‘entitled to the primum for the best plan of a New Town’. This plan became the street and squares which are today bounded by St Andrews Square to the east,...

05 Jan Northeast Scotland

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The northern and eastern slopes of the Grampian Mountains are draped with a long broad, green mantle of fertile lowlands, fringed with forests and hemmed around with long, sandy beaches and rugged, bird-haunted cliffs, bejewelled here and there with picturesque little fishing villages. Many visitors pass...

13 Jul Portsoy, Moray

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The pretty fishing village of Portsoy has an atmospheric 17th century harbour and maze of narrow streets lined with picturesque cottages. An ornamental stone known as Portsoy marble – actually a beautifully patterned green and pale pink serpentine – was quarried near Portsoy in the...

08 Jul Around Inverness

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Culloden Battlefield The Battle of Culloden in 1746, the last pitched battle ever fought on British soil, saw the defeat of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the end of the Jacobite dream when 1200 Highlanders were slaughtered by government forces in a 68-minute rout. The duke of...

Scotland tour Tag

02 Oct Scotland Tour

06 Jul George Square, Glasgow

09 Mar Stirling Castle, Stirlingshire

23 Feb New Town, Edinburgh

05 Jan Northeast Scotland

13 Jul Portsoy, Moray

08 Jul Around Inverness