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k Aberdeen
* 220,000. k 13 km (8 miles) NW.
£ @ n 23 Union St (01224-269
180). ( Thu, Fri, Sat.
Europe’s offshore oil capital,
Aberdeen is also one of Britain’s
most important fishing ports,
and hosts Scotland’s largest
fish market.
Among its fine buildings is the
The 15th-century Stirling Castle, atop its rocky crag 16th-century home of a former
provost (mayor) of the city. Period
h Stirling St. Andrew’s Castle was built rooms inside Provost Skene’s
for the bishops of the town House span 200 years of design
* 90,000. £ @ n Old Town Jail,
St. John St (01786-475 019). in 1200. and include the 17th-century
∑ visitscotland.com The Royal and Ancient Golf Great Hall, a Regency Room,
Club, founded in 1754, has a and a Georgian Dining Room.
Located between the Ochil Hills magnificent links course and is The Painted Gallery holds one
and the Campsie Fells, Stirling the ruling arbiter of the game. of Scotland’s most important
grew up around its castle,, one The city has other golf courses, cycles of religious art, dating
of the finest examples of which are open to the public from the 17th century.
Renaissance architecture in the for a modest fee. These include Founded in 1495, King’s
country. Dating from the 15th the Old Course, which regularly College was the city’s first
century, it was last defended – hosts the British Open. St. university. The chapel has
against the Jacobites – in 1746, Andrews is also home to the stained-glass windows by
and stands within sight of no British Golf Museum. Douglas Strachan.
fewer than seven battlefields. St. Andrew’s Cathedral
One of these – Bannockburn – E British Golf Museum is the Mother Church of the
was where Robert the Bruce Bruce Embankment. Tel 01334-460 Episcopal Communion in the
defeated the English in 1314. 046. Open 9:30am–5pm daily (Nov– United States. Coats of arms
Stirling’s Old Town is still Mar: 10am–4pm daily). & 7 = on the ceiling depict the
protected by the original American states.
16th-century walls, built to keep Housed in a
out Henry VIII. Two buildings historic building
stand out among a number overlooking the
of historic monuments in the harbor, Aberdeen
town: the medieval Church of Maritime Museum
the Holy Rude and Mar’s Wark, traces the city’s long
with its ornate facade. seafaring tradition.
+ Stirling Castle P Provost Skene’s
Castle Wynd. Tel 01786-450 000. House
Open daily. Closed Dec 25 & 26. Guestrow. Tel 01224-
& 8 7 limited. - = 641 086. Open Mon–
An old railroad poster illustrating the lure of Sat. Closed Jan 1–2, Dec
St. Andrews for golfing enthusiasts 25–31. ∑ aagm.co.uk
j St. Andrews
Fife. * 17,000. £ Leuchars. @ Golf
n 70 Market St (01224 472 021).
∑ visitstandrews.com Scotland’s national game was pioneered on the sandy links around St.
Andrews. The earliest record dates from 1457, when golf was banned
Scotland’s oldest university by James II on the grounds
town and one-time ecclesias- that it was interfering with his
tical capital, St. Andrews is now subjects’ archery practice.
a shrine for golfers from all over Mary, Queen of Scots
the world. Its main streets and enjoyed the game and was
cobbled alleys, lined with berated in 1568 for playing
university buildings and straight after the murder
medieval churches, converge of her husband Darnley.
Scotland has several other
on the ruined 12th-century world-class golf courses,
cathedral. Once the largest in including Royal Troon, Victorian engraving of Mary,
Scotland, it was later pillaged Gleneagles, and Carnoustie. Queen of Scots at St. Andrews
for stones to build the town.

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