Activities

Activities

February 16, 2020

Storm Kicks Off Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters

A 33 foot-tall puppet made her way through the streets of Glasgow during 2020's Celtic Connections, in a kickoff of a year long celebration of coasts and waters.  Her purpose?  "Storm lives in the...

Underground Edinburgh

Beneath the streets of Edinburgh lurks a labyrinth of man-made tunnels that were originally designed to hide clandestine activities from ...

Get to know Scotland - Immerse yourself in the local culture

One of the best ways to get to know a place is to live like a local - by immersing yourself in the local culture! You can learn how peop ...

Perthshire Amber Festival

Highland Perthshire has glen and Highland, waterfall and rock face. It’s a landscape Perthshire native  singer and songwriter Dougi ...

Linlithgow Palace’s Fright Night (if you dare…)

Are you brave enough to come to Linlithgow Palace, the birth place of Mary Queen of Scots, as night falls, and meet some of the les ...

Halloween with Robert Burns

In partnership with the International Storytelling Festival, the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum will celebrate a SPOOKY hallow ...

City Halls, Glasgow

Writer Charles Dickens, statesman Benjamin Disraeli, comedian Billy Connolly, explorer David Livingstone, fiddle player Mairéad Ni Mhaonaigh, sing ...

Want to get married at Edinburgh Castle? Here's How...

If you are looking for the ultimate romantic location for your wedding, why not come along to Edinburgh Castle’s Wedding Open Day o ...

Oh, Scotia!

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil Be blest with healt ...

Scary Scotland: Hallowe’en 2012

There’s nowhere better to spend Hallowe’en than at one of the National Trust for Scotland’s historic haunted places. With more events than ever be ...

Orkney's Rich Cultural Heritage

A new guidebook celebrating the diverse cultural heritage of the Orkney Islands has been produced by Historic Scotland, examining a buil ...

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