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Isle of Iona
Legend has it that when St Columba left Ireland in 563 to found a missionary outpost on
Scotland's west coast, he kept sailing until he found a spot where he could no longer see his
homeland on the southern horizon. That place was the little jewel of Iona (
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Scotland's most sacred island, and one of its most beautiful, with lush green pastures
bordered by pink granite rocks, white shell-sand beaches, and shallow, turquoise waters.
The Iona Community continues the island's spiritual calling in an abbey on the site of
Columba's first chapel.
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