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The most beautiful castles to visit in the Scottish Highlands
With their unique history and incredible views, these Scottish Highland castles are the ones worth exploring
The Scottish Highlands offer some of the most stunning scenery in the British Isles, and these landscapes provide the backdrop for many beautiful and fascinating castles.
From elegant, well-preserved palaces to hauntingly beautiful lochside ruins, the Scottish Highlands' castles each have their own captivating stories to tell of the lives of the Scottish people in centuries past. And you can soak in all this history while enjoying white sand beaches, dramatic mountain vistas, and wonderful native wildlife.
One of the most famous of the Scottish Highlands' castles is Cawdor Castle, immortalised in William Shakespeare's Macbeth as the scene of Duncan's murder, with its ancient medieval tower constructed around the legendary holly tree.
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Another highlight is the magical Blair Castle, the ancestral home of Clan Murray, nestled in the secluded Perthshire countryside. The château-style Dunrobin Castle and blush-coloured Brodie Castle are other Highland castles worth knowing about.
If you want to visit as many of these enchanting castles as possible in one trip this year, you're in luck. Prima has an exclusive five-day tour departing in September, which takes in several of Scotland's grandest castles while you get to know the myths, legends and turbulent history that surround them.
There are hundreds of castles and ruins in the Scottish Highlands and to show you their dramatic beauty, we've rounded up some of our favourites...
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