vendredi 5 septembre 2014

Blair Castle

Blair Castle is located near the village of Blair in Perthshire, Scotland. It is home to the ancestors of Clan Murray, as a headquarters and historic, Bruce Murray. Castle occupies strategically located on the main road (now the road A9) through the Scottish Highlands Central


Castle of buildings listed for category A, which are included in the inventory of established gardens and landscape design in Scotland, 

Castle and gardens 
Castle is one of the oldest castles that contains a six-storey tower Cummings or Comin, which retained some of the fabric in the 13th century, although it was built in the 15th century. Added accessories which are now essential, therefore, as of the castle for the first time in the 16th century. Added apartments to the south in the mid-18th century by architects John Douglas designs. A group of south-east, which includes a clock tower, which was rebuilt by Archibald Elliot after a fire in 1814. Finally, she reached the castle in its current form in 1870, when it was formed by David Bryce Scottish baronial style, and added the hall. 

The castle is open to the public since 1936, and the rooms feature the castle that there are many important collections of weapons and hunting trophies, souvenirs of the clan Murray, paintings, furniture, and needle that has been collected by the family of Murray over many generations. 

Dating back to the year 1269, has attracted the castle for many visitors because of her celebrity status, which turned over the centuries, since the early medieval cold for information and communication technology which fall on the political conflicts and strategy to become the palace of the Georgian and finally in Castle Victorian. It is still possible to look at these effects.

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