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From Burgundy to Beauly Beauly Priory was founded around 1230 by monks of the Valliscaulian order. They came from their mother house in Burgundy, in France, and settled beside the Beauly River, at the place where it enters the Beauly Firth. T...
James Dredge designed the Bridge Of Oich which is a splendid suspension bridge in 1854. Bridge Of Oich was built using a sophisticated patented design of double cantilevered chain construction with massive granite pylon arches at either end....
Burghead Well is a rock-cut well, identified by some as an early Christian baptistry associated with the local cult of St Ethan....
Clava Cairns is the site of an exceptionally well preserved group of prehistoric burial cairns that were built about 4,000 years ago. The Bronze Age cemetery complex comprises of passage graves, ring cairns, kerb cairn, standing stones in a beautiful...
Corrimony Chambered Cairn is an excavated passage grave of probable Bronze Age date, defined by a stone kerb and surrounded by a circle of 11 standing stones....
Uisge beatha – the water of life Whisky is Scotland’s national drink. It has evolved out of our landscape and our history. The landscape has given us water and peat, and the history has given us barley, a grain suited to our cooler climate...
Duffus Castle is one of the finest examples of a motte and bailey castle in Scotland with a later, very fine, stone hall house and curtain wall....
Dun Beag is a fine example of a Hebridean broch, apparently occupied to the 18th century....
Dun Dornaigil is also known as Dun Dornadilla, a well-preserved broch with a distinctive enterance, standing to a height of up to 6.7 metres. The road to Dun Dornaigil is not suitable for caravans, trailers, etc...
Spiritual heart of Moray Elgin Cathedral is one of Scotland’s most beautiful medieval buildings, and the inspiration for many an artist. The imposing yellow sandstone ruin is also one of the most important architectural legacies from that by...
The south aisle of the nave and chapter house survive at this beautiful red sandstone cathedral at Fortrose. The cathedral was built in the first half of the 13th century, though it was extended and altered in the 14th and 15th centuries. Earl...
Hilton Of Cadboll Chapel are the foundations of a small rectangular chapel and, nearby, a modern carved reconstruction of the famous Pictish cross-slab found on the site and now in the National Museums of Scotland....
Knocknagael Boar Stone is a rough slab incised with the Pictish symbols of a mirror-case and a wild boar....
Ruthven Barracks is an infantry barracks erected in 1719 following the Jacobite rising of 1715, with two ranges of quarters and a stable block. Captured and burnt by Prince Charles Edward Stuar's army in 1746....
Seat of the bishops of Moray Spynie Palace was for five centuries the residence of the bishops of Moray. During that time, the palace stood on the edge of Spynie Loch, a sea-loch giving safe anchorage for fishing boats and merchant vessels. A ...
St Peter's Kirk and Parish Cross roofless remains of the kirk include the base of a 14th-century western tower, a 16th-century vaulted porch and some interesting tombstones. St Peter's Kirk and Parish Cross cross is of 14th-century date....
Sueno's Stone is the most remarkable sculptured monument in Britain, probably a cenotaph, standing over 20 feet high and dating to the end of the first millennium AD. Sueno's Stone is covered by a protective glass enclosure....
Kintail and Morvich is one of the last few areas of wild land in Scotland, this rugged, remote estate in the West Highlands offers a true wilderness experience. The dramatic landscape encompasses the Five Sisters – a mountain ridge incorporating th...
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