This spring Braemar Castle opened to the public again for the first time in 3 years. Don't settle for that drive-by photo!  It's wel...

This castle is well worth a visit. Give yourself time to walk through the part of the castle open for self-tours, as well as the gardens & rock...

Balmoral Castle - we paid approximately £7.00 or £7.50 for entry to the estate and gardens, and apparently a ballroom which we didn't bother to l...

Balmoral Castle - we paid approximately £7.00 or £7.50 for entry to the estate and gardens, and apparently a ballroom which we didn't bother to l...

Huntly Castle is a ruined castle in Huntly in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It was the ancestrial home of the chief of Clan Gordon, Earl of Huntly. His...

Castle Stuart is about six miles north-east of Inverness. The land in that part of Scotland was at one time owned by the Mackintoshes who claim des...

The Fairy Flag (in Scottish Gaelic, An Bratach Sith) is a fragment of cloth owned by the Clan MacLeod and preserved at Dunvegan Castle on the Isle ...

The National Wallace Monument (generally known as the Wallace Monument) is a tower standing on the summit of Abbey Craig, a hilltop near Stirling...

Castle Fraser was mostly built between 1575 and 1635. It is a large z-plan tower house with two projecting wings that form a courtyard. Michael Fra...

Urquhart Castle sits beside Loch Ness in Scotland along the A82 road, between Fort William and Inverness. It is close to the village of Drumnadroch...

Castle Stalker is a small tower house that is sited on an islet, known as the Rock of the Cormorants, at the mouth of Loch Laich. It was built in t...

Tolquhon Castle is for the most part a comfortable 16th century mansion with an earlier 15th century tower in one corner. The old tower, known as t...

Craigievar Castle has a fairytale appearance with a collection of turrets, gables, chimney stacks and corbelling all crammed onto the top of a seve...

Crathes Castle was built over a 43 year period from 1553 - 96 by the Burnett family. They were a prominent local family who had lived in the a...

For most of its existence Drum Castle was the home of the Irvine family. Their changing needs have resulted in the current form of the castle, whic...

Dunnottar Castle has one of the most spectacular locations of any castle. A collection of buildings from various periods crown the top of a promont...

Ballindalloch Castle was originally a Z plan tower house, but it has been much altered and enlarged over the centuries. The main tower dates from t...

Eilean Donan Castle is dramatically situated on a small isle at the meeting point of three sea lochs - Loch Long, Loch Duich and Loch Alsh. The ori...

Fyvie Castle is one of Scotland’s great baronial fortress palaces. Fyvie dates back to the 13th century when it was a royal stronghold. Both Will...

Glenbuchat Castle is a Z-plan castle built for John Gordon of Cairnburrow in 1590. In 1701 it was bought by a different branch of the Gordon family...

Kildrummy Castle is in a very ruinous state, but it was once an impressive fortress and residence. It was built in the 13th century for the Earls o...

Dunvegan Castle is a castle at Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland. It is the seat of the Macleod of MacLeod, chief o...

Armadale Castle is a ruined country house in Armadale, Isle of Skye, former home of the MacDonalds of Sleat.   A mansion house was first...

From the ABERDEEN EVENING EXPRESS, 10/12/07: SLAINS RUIN CLOSED TO VISITORS 12:00 - 12 October 2007 A Historic North-east ruined castle has been c...

Stirling Castle is built high on a basalt outcrop above what was in medieval times the main crossing point across the Forth and the surrounding mar...

New Slains Castle is a ruined castle near Cruden Bay in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, overlooking the North Sea. The remains stand perched atop tall, s...

Scotland's Castles and the Aberdeenshire Castle Trail Step back in time on Scotland's only Castle Trail. Aberdeenshire is matchless in the ri...

Kilchurn CastleKilchurn Castle is a ruined 14th century structure on the northeastern end of Loch Awe, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It was the an...

The Massacre of Glencoe occurred in Glen Coe, Scotland, in the early morning of 13 February 1692, during the era of the Glorious Revolution and Jac...