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Stirling has featured strongly in the history of Scotland, especially during crucially important moments. In and around Stirling has a fantastic selection of superb visitor attractions and a huge amount of monuments and places to photograph. In article that follows I provide details of three places to visit in Stirling; Argyll’s Lodging, Stirling Castle and Stirling Old Town Jail:

Stirling Castle

Sat two hundred and fifty feet above the city of Stirling, and surrounded on three sides by shear cliffs is Stirling Castle. Stirling Castle is immensely important in Scotland’s history, there have been many coronations within the castle, including that of Mary Queen of Scots in 1543. The castle was also witness to a horrifying murder in 1452. The eighth Earl of Douglas was victim to James II in 1452. The castle is home to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, even though they are, sadly no longer stationed there. However, the regimental museum of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, is located within the castle.

Stirling Old Town Jail

The Stirling Old Town Jail of today is not the original jail, for four hundred years, Stirling’s prisoners were committed in the Old Tollbooth Jail. This jail was terribly overcrowded, and smelt disgusting, with twenty four prisoners to each cell, and no sanitary facilities. The Tollbooth jail was condemned, due to the fearful living conditions there, and in 1847 the current jail opened. Although the jail was classed as a custodial jail, from 1888 to 1935, it was also the only military jail in Scotland. Today the Stirling Old Town Jail is a visitor attraction, and was only renovated in the 1990’s. As well as guided tours, there is a glass paneled elevator that transports one to a viewing deck at the top of the jail. From commanding viewpoint a person can look out across the Forth Valley, and enjoy the spectacular view of the Highland mountains.

Argyll’s Lodging

Argyll’s Lodging can be found on Castle Wynd, near the center of Stirling and is Scotland’s best existing renaissance mansion. The mansion was erected around 1630, by Sir William Alexander, founder of Nova Scotia and Viscount Canada. Sir William Alexander who became 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 laigh hall, drawing room, dining room and bed chamber, have all been carefully restored and furnished, as they would have looked when the ninth Earl lived there, around 1680.

If you are considering a holiday in Stirling you will find plenty of online Stirling hotels and guest houses and you will discover a massive range at http://stirling.hotelreservationhelper.com/

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