Scotland's Most Magnificent Castles
Your Complete Guide

Edinburgh & Lothians

Edinburgh Castle

Scotland's most iconic fortress — the Crown Jewels, One O'Clock Gun and views over the capital.

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Stirling & Central

Stirling Castle

The brooch of Scotland — palace of Mary Queen of Scots and gateway to the Highlands.

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Scottish Highlands

Eilean Donan Castle

The most photographed castle in Scotland — on a tidal island where three sea lochs meet.

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Scottish Highlands

Dunvegan Castle

Seat of the MacLeod clan on Skye — continuously occupied for 800 years, home of the Fairy Flag.

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Scottish Highlands

Urquhart Castle

Loch Ness's most famous ruin — medieval fortress with stunning views across Scotland's most mysterious loch.

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Aberdeenshire

Balmoral Castle

The Scottish home of the Royal Family since 1852 — 50,000 acres of Highland estate on Royal Deeside.

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Aberdeenshire

Dunnottar Castle

Scotland's most dramatic ruin — perched on a 160ft sea stack above the North Sea, where the Crown Jewels were hidden.

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Aberdeenshire

Craigievar Castle

Scotland's fairytale pink tower — the inspiration for Walt Disney's Cinderella Castle, virtually unchanged since 1626.

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Aberdeenshire

Crathes Castle

16th-century tower house with Scotland's finest painted ceilings — 6 acres of extraordinary walled gardens.

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Aberdeenshire

Castle Fraser

The grandest of the Aberdeenshire tower houses — classic Z-plan castle on the Aberdeenshire Castle Trail.

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Perthshire

Blair Castle

Home of Europe's last private army — the Atholl Highlanders — in the heart of the Perthshire hills.

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Argyll

Kilchurn Castle

Hauntingly beautiful Campbell ruin at the head of Loch Awe — one of Scotland's most atmospheric ruins.

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Argyll

Inveraray Castle

Gothic Revival masterpiece on Loch Fyne — ancestral seat of Clan Campbell, Dukes of Argyll, for 500 years.

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Argyll

Dunstaffnage Castle

13th-century fortress near Oban — linked to Robert the Bruce, Flora MacDonald and the Stone of Destiny.

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Scottish Borders

Floors Castle

Scotland's largest inhabited castle — the palatial seat of the Dukes of Roxburghe overlooking the River Tweed.

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Dumfries & Galloway

Caerlaverock Castle

Scotland's only triangular castle — a perfectly geometric medieval fortress surrounded by a water-filled moat.

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Stirling

Doune Castle

Best-preserved medieval courtyard castle turned film star — Monty Python, Game of Thrones and Outlander's Castle Leoch.

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South Ayrshire

Culzean Castle

Robert Adam's clifftop masterpiece above the Firth of Clyde — and General Eisenhower's Scottish retreat.

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Highland

Cawdor Castle

Scotland's legendary home of Macbeth — a fairy-tale tower built around a 600-year-old holly tree near Nairn.

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Argyll and Bute

Duart Castle

The ancient seat of Clan Maclean, dramatically perched above the Sound of Mull for over 700 years.

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Angus

Glamis Castle

Childhood home of the Queen Mother and birthplace of Princess Margaret — one of Scotland's most photogenic castles.

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Aberdeenshire

Braemar Castle

Scotland's first community-run castle — 400 years of Jacobite history on Royal Deeside.

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Dumfries and Galloway

Threave Castle

The Black Douglas island fortress reached only by boat, and site of a two-month royal siege in 1455.

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Fife

St Andrews Castle

Home to the infamous Bottle Dungeon and a rare pair of 1546 siege tunnels on a North Sea clifftop.

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Isle of Skye

Duntulm Castle

A ruined clifftop stronghold fought over by the MacLeods and MacDonalds, said to be one of Skye's most haunted sites.

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Moray

Brodie Castle

A 16th-century tower house with a world-class art collection, home to Clan Brodie for over 400 years.

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