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Glen Coe
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Scotland's most famous glen (
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combines those two essential qualities of
Highlands landscape: dramatic scenery and deep history. The peacefulness and beauty of
this valley today belie the fact that it was the scene of a ruthless 17th-century massacre,
when the local MacDonalds were murdered by soldiers of the Campbell clan. Some of the
glen's finest walks - to the Lost Valley, for example - follow the routes used by the
clanspeople trying to flee their attackers, and where many perished in the snow.
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