Autumn Castle And Royal Palace Stirling Scotland

Tour Scotland Autumn travel video of the Palace and Castle on visit to Stirling. King James V and his second wife Mary of Guise constructed the grand palace at Stirling Castle, which was designed to heighten royal mystique. The castle is one of the largest and most important Scottish castles. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542. There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle. The distance by road from Perth, Perthshire to Stirling Castle is 36. 8 miles.

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