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Blair Castle |
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Blair Castle, the magnificent ancient seat of the Dukes and Earls of Atholl, Scotland’s most visited historic house and the home of the Atholl Highlanders, Europe’s only remaining private army. An extensive castle tour takes in some 30 rooms crammed full of treasures and alive with the characters and personalities of their former occupants. Features of particular interest include an impressive ballroom bedecked with 175 pairs of antlers, the superb China Room (a display of more than 1700 individual pieces including Coalport and blue Dresden) and an ornamental armoury which includes targes and muskets used at the Battle of Culloden. Summer visitors can also enjoy the traditional sound of the Scottish bagpipes played by our piper three times daily during the summer months. Blair Castle is at the hub of a breath-taking historic landscape most of which was laid out in the 18th century and features a magnificent 9 acre walled garden recently restored to its original Georgian design, a peaceful wooded grove, a ruined Celtic kirk, a red deer park and a whimsical gothic folly. Colourful peacocks roam the grounds, Highland cattle graze in fields nearby and the native red squirrel can often be spotted in the branches of the trees. |
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