The 27th Chief was the first Chief to share his home with the public by opening it for charitable purposes two days a week in 1933. Since then the number of visitors has risen from a few hundred to tens of thousands. Despite such numbers crowding into so small a...

Dunrobin Castle is the most northerly of Scotland's great houses and the largest in the Northern Highlands with 189 rooms. Dunrobin Castle is also one of Britain's oldest continuously inhabited houses dating back to the early 1300s, home to the Earls and later, the...

Cawdor. A magical name, romantically linked by Shakespeare with Macbeth. A superb fairy-tale Castle, and just what every visitor is looking for ... Scottish history that you can touch and see and sense for yourself. Cawdor Castle is not another cold monument, but a...

Torosay is a spectacular 150 year old Scottish baronial style castle surrounded by magnificent and unique gardens, just a mile from the ferry pier at Craignure on the south- east of the Isle of Mull. Connected by its very own narrow gauge steam railway, the castle...

The ruins of a Valliscaulian priory founded in 1230 and later converted to secular use.

Duart Castle, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland is the ancestral home of the Clan Maclean. Discover the history of the Castle and the Macleans, visit our tea room with home baked cakes and gluten free goodies, check out our gift shop full of products from Scotland and...

Ballindalloch is one of the most beautiful and renowned castles in Scotland. Known as the Pearl of the North, it is located in the heart of Speyside, near to the famed local whisky distilleries of Cragganmore, Glenlivet, Glenfarclas and Glenfiddich. Surrounded by...

Set amongst the magnificent scenery of Royal Deeside, in the shadows of Lochnagar is the Balmoral Estate. Purchased by Queen Victoria in 1848, the Estate has been the Scottish Home of the British Royal Family ever since. The Estate covers about 20,000 hectares...

Dirnanean is a 1.5 hectare garden with 7 hectares of recently replanted and restored Policies and over a mile of Burn Walk undergoing restoration; rising into the magnificent surrounding hill scenery at 1,000 feet above sea level.

Inveraray Castle is first and foremost a family home in which I have had the great privilege of growing up. Its very existence reflects the part played by my family in the rich tapestry of Scottish History.