Travel Reference
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DEEP HISTORY
Scotland is a land with a rich, multilayered history, a place where every corner of the land-
scape is steeped in the past - a deserted croft on an island shore, a moor that was once a
battlefield, a beach where Vikings hauled their boats ashore, a cave that once sheltered
Bonnie Prince Charlie. Hundreds of castles, from the plain but forbidding tower houses of
Hermitage and Smailholm to the elaborate machicolated fortresses of Caerlaverock and
Craigmillar, testify to the country's often turbulent past. Battles that played a pivotal part in
the building of a nation are remembered and brought to life at sites such as Bannockburn
and Culloden. And museums and galleries such as Glasgow's Kelvingrove, Dundee's Dis-
covery Point and Aberdeen's Maritime Museum recall the influence of Scottish engineers,
artists, explorers, writers and inventors in shaping the modern world.
A busker on the Royal Mile (
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