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Feb06

Perfect Skiing Holiday

 

This family run hotel is superbly run by Gill and Herbert and offers a good standardized of betterment, a amiable condition and eager facilities. In the region you can also enjoy winter hiking, snowshoeing, Nordic season walking, torchlight processions, snowrafting, cross-country skiing and paragliding. Picturesque and unspoilt nature. 

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Feb01

Small family run apartments

This family-run belongings offers a central locating only 50m from the middle of San Rocco and a warmed and genial ambience. The Garni Francescato is a marvelous deciding for Italian skiing and  snow boarding holidays to Livigno. The hotel is ideally situated 80m from the near lift‚ edifice slopes and ski bus kibosh.

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Jan27

Huntly Castle was once one of the grandest chateaux in the land

Huntly Castle, also known as ‘The Pare of Strathbogie’ or ‘Strathbogie Chessman’, stands on the south funds of the River Deveron and unventilated to the smaller River Bogie. Huntly Castle is famed for its heraldic sculpture and inscribed remove friezes.

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Jan26

One of the most beautiful and historic of Scotland’s castles

Glamis is a living, snorting construction to Scots welcome; a place of activity, comment, laughter and speculate for all. Glamis Castle  is situated beside the village of Glamis in Angus, Scotland. It is the home of the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne , and is agaze to the unrestricted.

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Jan24

Lochnaw Castle, once home of the Agnew family

 

The ancestral seat of the Agnews, one-time hereditary sheriffs of Galloway, Lochnaw Hall is situated by Lochnaw Loch in the Rhins of Beef , 5 miles (8 km) north of Stranraer. Lochnaw Castle shows four periods of constituent – a oblong 16th century record, 17th and 18th century servant dwellings, and a mansion-house, which was afterwards destroyed. There is a memorial manner the meeting 1486, on the  protect of the enter.

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Jan24

The oldest structure in Scotland

 

Kirkconnell Tower is an ancient and secret stone tower house neighbour New Abbey. The Kirkconnell House Pillar was shapely of take in 1410 by Andrew Kirkconnell.It is rumored to be the oldest underpopulated plaything in Scotland.

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Jan22

Spectacular 16th Century ruin

The magnificent ruins of Dunskey Castle are picturesquely perched on a difficult rock sticking out into the Irish Sea. This castle is located a mile southerly of Portpatrick and roughly 10 miles from Stranraer. Alas, there is no accession to the manse part. Upkeep is requisite if visiting as the cliffs here are bluff and precarious and you are advised to rest on the path.

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Jan22

One old stone tower house

 

 

To the north-east of the Scottish Borders townsfolk of Moffat, perennial hillsides lengthen more miles up to place of Hart Fell and Human Coomb. On the bottom slopes of these hills, not far below the beginnings of the all-choking pine forests, stands the tiny castle of Frenchland Tower. Frenchland Tower was originally a 16th century French family unit. The stream rear dates from the 16th century.

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Jan22

Closeburn Castle

Closeburn Castle is a tower house, belike of the 14th century, but perchance older, and is one of the oldest continually occupied houses in Scotland. In Nithsdale, situated on the easterly back of a loch, or lake, about xii miles to the north of Dumfries.

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Jan21

Impressive landmark in the Nithsdale countryside

With its trilateral structure and solid defenses Caerlaverock Castle is one of the advisable examples of medieval architecture crosswise Scotland. Surrounded by a dual moat and hundreds of acres of flat sloughy willow woods (celebrated in Scotland as a “moss”), Caerlaverock was shapely to test the South-West entryway to Scotland which in primaeval times was the waterway crossways the Solway Firth. Today its ruins bowman of its fascinating departed and represent the nonmodern stronghold.

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