Delightful Visitor Attractions To Visit In Stirling, Scotland
The city of Stirling has played an important role in the history of Scotland, especially during crucial moments. In and around Stirling has an incredible selection of excellent tourist attractions and a multitude of photo opportunities. In the article below I discuss 3 visitor attractions in Stirling; Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling Castle and Stirling Old Town Jail:
Stirling Castle
Situated two hundred and fifty feet above the city of Stirling, and surrounded on 3 sides by steep cliffs is Stirling Castle. Stirling Castle is immensely important in Scotland’s history, there have been several coronations within the castle, including Mary Queen of Scots coronation in 1543. Stirling Castle was also witness to an horrific murder in 1452. The 8th Earl of Douglas was victim to James II in 1452. The castle is the home of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, although they are, sadly no longer garrisoned there. However, the regimental museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, can be found within the castle.
Stirling Old Town Jail
The Stirling Old Town Jail we see today is not the original jail, for 400 years, Stirling’s prisoners were committed in the Old Tollbooth Jail. This jail was dreadfully overcrowded, and smelled dreadful, with twenty four prisoners to each cell, and zero toilet facilities. The Tollbooth jail was condemned, because of the awful living conditions there, and in 1847 the current jail opened. Although the jail was classed as a custodial prison, from 1888 to 1935, it was also the only military jail in Scotland. Today the Stirling Old Town Jail is a tourist attraction, and was only restored in the 1990′s. As well as guided tours, there is a glass paneled lift that leads to a viewing platform at the very top of the jail. From this superb vantage point a person is able to look out across the Forth Valley, and enjoy the spectacular view of the Highland mountains.
Argyll’s Lodging
Argyll’s Lodging is on Castle Wynd, situated in the middle of Stirling and is Scotland’s finest existing renaissance mansion. The house was constructed around 1630, by Sir William Alexander, originator of Nova Scotia and Viscount Canada. Sir William Alexander who was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland, and was then appointed the 1st Earl of Stirling. Argyll’s Lodging became the property of the Argyll family on his death and was extended by the ninth Earl in 1666. The rooms which include the dining room, laigh hall, bed chamber and drawing room, have all been sympathetically restored and furnished, as they would have been when the ninth Earl lived there, around 1680.
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