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  • Mull island, Craignure: ferry.
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  • Locharron, tartan traditional factory.
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  • Howie Nicholby, owner of 21st Century Kilts, offer a unique take, and are a fitting homage, to a traditional Scottish style. The use of original textiles, ranging from leather, gold and purple denim, camouflage, to pinstripe offer something different to those fond of this age old item.
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  • The castle with Festival structure.
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  • Staffa, a small island of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, is famous for the magnificent volcanic rock formations. Their geometric forms are part of the same formation as the more famous Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Staffa's Fingal's Cave inspired Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides Overture' ('Die Fingalshöle') after his visit to the island. Mendelssohn was inspired by the deep, rhythmic, sounds  of the waves as they enter the cave. The island is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and was declared a National Nature Reserve in September 2001 by Scottish Natural Heritage.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. The pier.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island. Armadale, Gaelic college of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (Talla Mhòr) is a campus of the Highland University. Traditional Ceilidh, a Gaelic word that minds "visit",  is a sort of collective meeting of poetry, songs and dances. Fest-Noz - 'Deskomp' is playing songs and dances from Brittany.
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  • Drumnachoit, shop with any kind of gadget about the Monster.
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  • Outer Hebrides, Griamsaigh Island: Free Church Sunday  service, the most traditional of the Hebrides.
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  • Mallaig, the most westerly harbour on the British mainland, was once Europe's busiest herring port, but is still a major fishing centre, landing large catches of prawns and other shellfish.
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  • The harbour.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. St Oran cemetry, Legend has it that ancient Scottish, Irish and Norse kings are buried here.
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  • The harbour, boats serving the fishing and oil industries.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Harris Island, the East Coast where lives mainly a scattered population of croftmen and fishermen.
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  • Fraserburgh, Shipyard. The fishing harbour is one of the most importants of Europe.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. The pier.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, Trotternish Peninsula. Cemetery near Duntulm with a cemeterial stone probably of a norseman prince reutilised by a local fisherman named Angus "the wind".
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  • Faskally Wood, Highland Perthshire. Mask of the Celtic traditions in the Enchanted Forest, an outdoor sound and light show which takes place at Faskally Wood near Pitlochry. Visitors will be treated to a series of choreographed sound and light shows while they follow the path around the forest.
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  • Culloden. The battle of Culloden (16 April 1746) brought the Jacobite cause, to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of Great Britain, to a decisive defeat. <br />
The Jacobites, the majority of the Highland Scots, supported the claim of James Francis Edward Stuart ("The Old Pretender") to the throne.  The aftermath of the battle was brutal and earned the victorious Duke of Cumberland, son of the King George II, the nickname "Butcher" Cumberland. Today a visitor centre is located near the the site of the battle, with the intention of preserving the battlefield. On the stones are the names of clans that helped the construction of the Memorial.
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  • Tulloch Castle, once seat of Davidson clan of Tulloch and now a boutique hotel, traditionally a place with Scottish Ghosts like the Green Lady.
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  • Mallaig, the most westerly harbour on the British mainland, was once Europe's busiest herring port, but is still a major fishing centre, landing large catches of prawns and other shellfish.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: Arnol, "White House" (typical crofters english style house) in Black House Museum.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: The village of Uig on the western coast of the island. The name derives from the Norse word Vik meaning 'a bay'.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: Standing Stones of Callanish erected around 2000 BC, one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in Scotland. A tomb was later built into the site. The 13 primary stones form a circle about 13 m in diameter, with a long approach avenue of stones to the north.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Calmac ferry.
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  • Fishermen boat between Iona and Staffa.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Harris Island, Tarbert: the harbour. Calmac ferry check, the controller utilise a net against the midges, very small and nasty flies.
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  • Outeer Hebrides. The  Eriskay Pony is the only local surviving variety of ancient Hebridean pony, but itself in danger of extinction.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Harris Island, Scalpay Island where lives a fishermen community.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, Duirinish  Peninsula. Nest Point.
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  • Outer Hebrides (Western Islands). Harris Island.
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  • Geoffrey Taylor traditional shop on the Royal Mile. Mungo Angus Maclean is a expert tartan cutter.
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  • Calum Lykan, is a passionate Storyteller who loves entertaining his audiences to the wonderful worlds of myth, legend, folklore, fables, and historical stories from Scotland. On the back Canongate Kirk cemetery where is buried aso Adam Smith.
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  • Dalhousie Castle. Falconry has been part of Scottish heritage since the dark ages and may have been used for sport and hunting by knights in the past
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  • Loch Ness, tourists.
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  • Loch Ness. The "monster" aka Nessie, is everywhere.
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  • Fort Augustus on the southernmost end of Loch Ness.
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  • Fraserburgh, the fishing harbour is one of the most importants of Europe.
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  • Stonehaven, the beach.
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  • Landscape near Stonehaven.
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  • Old Aberdeen,St Machar cathedral.
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  • Old Aberdeen, King College University.
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  • the Riverside Museum of Transport realized by the architect Zaha Hadid
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  • the Riverside Museum of Transport realized by the architect Zaha Hadid. Reflected on the glass the Gleenlee clipper. The boom years of the clipper hips began in 1843 with the growing demand for a more rapid delivery of tea from China and Glasgow dockyards build many famous clippers.
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  • Briggait, a Victorian fish market transformed in a hub for contemporary artists. the selfmade cocktail bar.
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  • The Lighthouse was Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s first public commission. The building, designed in 1895, was a warehouse at the back of the printing office of the Glasgow Herald. Mackintosh designed the tower as water tank to protect the building from the risk of fire. The former Glasgow Herald building was renovated and launched as The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. The Lighthouse remains a succesful visitor attraction and hub for the creative industries in Scotland.
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  • Buchanan st, shopping area
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  • Barber shop.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Mull island. Glen More.
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  • Staffa, a small island of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, is famous for the magnificent volcanic rock formations. Their geometric forms are part of the same formation as the more famous Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland. Staffa's Fingal's Cave inspired Mendelssohn's 'Hebrides Overture' ('Die Fingalshöle') after his visit to the island. Mendelssohn was inspired by the deep, rhythmic, sounds  of the waves as they enter the cave. The island is owned by the National Trust for Scotland and was declared a National Nature Reserve in September 2001 by Scottish Natural Heritage.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. Old gravestones of scottish princes and chieftains
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  • Hebrides, Iona island.
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  • Hebrides, Iona island. Fishing-tackles.
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  • Mull island, wrecks of fishermen boats
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, sheep-shearing  near Bracadale. Today only few farmers still  breed the sheeps.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, sheep-shearing  near Bracadale. Today only few farmers still  breed the sheeps.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, Portree, the small  harbour.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, Glen Sligachan. In the back the Cuilin mountains ranges.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, sheep-shearing  near Bracadale. Today only few farmers still  breed the sheeps.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island: Portree, the most populated town of the island.
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  • Hebrides Islands, Skye island, Elgol harbour. In the back the Cuilin range of rocky mountains.
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  • The Glenfinnan Monument: situated at the head of Loch Shiel, was erected in 1815 to mark the place where Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") raised his standard at the beginning of the 1745 Jacobite Rising.
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  • Faskally Wood, Highland Perthshire, The Enchanted Forest is an outdoor sound and light show which takes place at Faskally Wood near Pitlochry. Visitors will be treated to a series of choreographed sound and light shows while they follow the path around the forest.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: the majestick rocks of Mangersta Cliffs exposed to the Atlantic.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: Arnol, "White House" (typical crofters english style house) in Black House Museum.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: the East Coast.
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  • Outer Hebrides (Western Islands). Harris Island, Traigh Losgantair Bay.
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  • Outer Hebrides. South Harris Island: Tarbert, the ferry.
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  • Outer Hebrides. South Harris Island: Tarbert, the harbour.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Harris Island, the East Coast where lives mainly a scattered population of croftmen and fishermen.
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  • Outer Hebrides. Lewis Island: Butt of Lewis lighthouse, the most northerly point in the Western Isles.
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  • Outer Hebrides (Western Islands). Harris Island, Traigh Losgantair Bay.
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  • Outer Hebrides, Benbecula. Father Jain MacAskill of Free Church preaching in gaelic in a pub.
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  • Outer Hebrides, Griamsaigh Island: Kallin harbour.
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  • Outer Hebrides, North Uist.
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  • Formally known as the Collegiate Chapel of St Matthew (15th-century) Eosslyn Chapel located at the village of Roslin. Founded by William Sinclair, since the 1980s, the chapel has also featured in theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.
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  • Locharron, tartan traditional factory.
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  • Locharron, tartan traditional factory. The workers hand-checking the tartan.
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