From the Edinburgh Fringe to Up Helly Aa's Viking fire festival, Scotland's calendar is packed with extraordinary events. Here are the festivals that make this country unlike anywhere else.
Scotland has over 100 gin distilleries, each drawing on wild local botanicals — heather, kelp, bog myrtle — that give Scottish gin a flavour like nowhere else. Get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Visit the Scott Monument on Princes Street — the tallest literary monument ever built — and discover the extraordinary man it honours — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Explore Balmoral Castle in Royal Deeside — why Victoria fell in love with it, what you can visit today, and how to reach this royal Highland retreat. — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Walk through the ruins of St Andrews Cathedral — once Scotland’s greatest medieval building — and discover the ancient coastal town of St Andrews, Fife — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Most visitors to Scotland’s far north drive straight past the car park. The sign is small, the pull-in is easy to miss, and there’s nothing to suggest that a five-minute walk away sits Britain’s largest sea cave — a cavern so vast it swallows the sound of the sea, with a waterfall crashing through a […]
Discover why the Isle of Arran — often called Scotland in miniature — is the perfect first island to visit, with mountains, castles, whisky and wildlife — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Discover what the tartan patterns, sporran, and sgian-dubh of a Scottish kilt really mean — and how to find the clan tartan that belongs to your family — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Discover why Islay whisky has a flavour unlike any other — coastal peat, salty air, and nine remarkable distilleries on one small Scottish island — plus get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.
Galloway Forest Park is Britain's first Dark Sky Park, where the Milky Way is visible to the naked eye on a clear night — get weekly Scotland stories free in our newsletter.