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. |
