A thousand
years of History provides you with:
- The mysterious Scottish Castles
- Scottish Moorland,
- Scotch Mist shrouded Lochs and
Glens
- Romance of Scottish History ,
- Stunning Traditions
This is Scottish heritage.
And the Castles are many and varied. Close to Sunbank House
is Scone Palace, Scone Palace
is located at the geographical and historical heart of Scotland.
Originally the capital of Pictavia, it was here that Kenneth
MacAlpin, after uniting the Picts and Celts, was crowned King
of the Scots upon the Stone of Scone - also known as the Stone
of Destiny - on the Moot Hill in 838 AD.
The same site was used
for the crowning of all the Scottish Kings since then including
Macbeth and Robert the Bruce. The Abbey Palace of
Scone was the lodging of the kings before their coronation,
and the city that grew up around the Palace was the seat of
government.
Glamis Castle
has been the family home of the Earls of Strathmore
and Kinghorne since 1372 when Sir John Lyon of Forteviot was
created Thane of Glamis and given the Castle by King Robert
II of Scotland. Four years later, Sir John married Princess
Joanna, the King's daughter.
Glamis
has been lived in and visited by many members of the Scottish
and British royal families. It was the childhood home of HM
Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and it was here that Princess
Margaret was born in 1930.
The Castle is the legendary
setting of Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, Macbeth, and
is mentioned frequently by name in the play. "Glamis thou
art ..., And yet would'st wrongly win; thou'dst have, great
Glamis ...".
Though the Castle is
open to visitors, it remains a family home lived in and much
loved by the Strathmore family.
Edinburgh Castle
dominates the city of Edinburgh like no other castle in Scotland,
or for that matter the whole of the British Isles. Over one
thousand years of history sit on top of the famous Edinburgh
rock and it is easy to see why over a million visitors a year
visit Edinburgh Castle.
When you visit Edinburgh
Castle you can see why the early inhabitants of the
area we now call Edinburgh, made their first settlements here,
in what is now the city of Edinburgh. In troubled times past,
man has always sought a safe refuge, and the volcanic rock
that forms the base of Edinburgh Castle,
has always afforded the ultimate defensive position in Edinburgh. |
