Tour Scotland Highland Games Photographs
Tour Scotland Highland Games slideshow. Highland games are held throughout the year in Scotland and many other countries of the world as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. Certain elements of the games are so well known as to have become emblematic of Scotland, such as the bagpipes, the kilt, and the heavy events, especially the caber toss. While centered around competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics, the games also include entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and Gaelic culture.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Camera Obscura Edinburgh
Tour Scotland photograph of the Camera Obscura, Edinburgh, Scotland. Located near the Esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, on the short Castlehill Street. Camera Obscura is the oldest purpose built attraction in the city. In the early 18th century, the Edinburgh instrument maker Thomas Short leased some land on Calton Hill to display his instruments to the public. As his lease stipulated female relatives of Thomas could not inherit the building and its contents, his wife and children did not inherit it when he died in 1788. In 1827, Maria Theresa Short returned to Edinburgh from the West Indies claiming to be Thomas Short’s daughter and attempted to claim his Great Telescope for her inheritance. Despite strong competition from other parties, she received the telescope and set up Short's Popular Observatory in 1835, housed in a wooden and stone building next to the National Monument on Calton Hill. She exhibited many scientific instruments and kept her Observatory open till 9pm each evening. After this very popular observatory was pulled down by authorities against her protests in 1851, she moved to Castlehill. In 1852, she bought the Laird of Cockpen’s townhouse, adding two storeys to create Short's Observatory, Museum of Science and Art, in existence from 1853 to 1892. The tenement is thought to be the original mansion of the Ramsays of Dalhousie, the Lairds of Cockpen, turned into small flats in the 18th century. The main attraction in Short's Observatory was the camera obscura occupying the topmost room. Her husband continued to run the attraction after Mrs. Short died in 1869. The tower, with its six floors of interactive exhibitions, is still open to the public, making it the oldest purpose built attraction in the city, and one of the oldest in the United Kingdom.
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Tour Scotland Photographs Tibbermore Church
Tour Scotland photograph of the church in Tibbermore, Perthshire, Scotland. Tibbermore Parish Church is a former parish church rebuilt in 17th century when the transepts were removed and the striking bellcote added. Reputed to be the burial place of three hundred Covenanters who perished in the Battle of Tibbermore.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Scottish National War Memorial Edinburgh
Tour Scotland photograph of the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland. Scottish National War Memorial which commemorate Scotss and those serving with Scottish regiments who had died in the First World War and subsequent conflicts.
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Tour Scotland Photograph Doune Castle
Tour Scotland photograph of Doune Castle, beside the village of Doune, north of Stirling, Scotland. This castle is remarkable among Scottish castles, as it is the product of a single building period, and has survived relatively unchanged and complete. It was begun in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany, born 1340, died 1420, the son of King Robert II of Scotland, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany's son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house. In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn's rising in the middle of the 17th century, and during the Jacobite Risings of the late 17th and 18th centuries. By 1800 the castle was ruined, but restoration works were carried out in the 1880s. Many scenes in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a parody of the legends of King Arthur, was filmed at Doune Castle.
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