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The Scottish capital, Edinburgh , is a handsome and ancient city, famous for its magnificent castle and Palace of Holyroodhouse as well as for a world-acclaimed international arts festival and some excellent museums - not least the outstanding National Museum of Scotland . A short journey west is Glasgow , a sprawling industrial metropolis that has done much to improve its image in recent years and can now boast a range of fine museums and galleries to complement the impressive architectural legacy of its eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday.

Southern Scotland , often underrated, features some gorgeous scenery, but nothing quite to compare to the shadowy glens and well-walked hills of the Trossachs , or to the Highlands , whose multitude of mountains, seacliffs, glens and lochs cover the northern two-thirds of the country. Inverness is an obvious base, although Fort William , at the opposite end of the Great Glen near Ben Nevis , Britain's highest mountain, is an alternative.

Some of Britain's most thrilling wilderness experiences are to be had on the Scottish islands, the most accessible of which extend in a long rocky chain off the Atlantic coast, from

Arran through Skye (the most visited of the Hebrides) to the Western Isles , where the remarkably hostile terrain harbours some of the last bastions of the Gaelic language. At Britain's northern extreme lie the sea- and wind-buffeted Orkney and Shetland islands, whose rich Norse heritage makes them distinct in dialect and culture from mainland Scotland, while their wild scenery offers some of Britain's finest birdwatching and some stunning archeological remains.

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• Orkney and Shetland Scotland Travel Videos
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  Reaching up towards the Arctic Circle, and totally exposed to turbulent Atlantic weather systems, the Orkney and Shetland islands gather neatly into two distinct and very different clusters. - Scotland
  

• Northeast Scotland Travel Videos
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  A large triangle of land thrusting into the North Sea, northeast Scotland comprises the area east of a line drawn roughly from Perth north to the fringe of the Moray Firth at Forres. - Scotland
  

• Argyll Scotland Travel Videos
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  Cut off for centuries from the rest of Scotland by the mountains and sea lochs that characterize the region, Argyll remains remote, its scatter of offshore islands forming part of the Inner Hebridean archipelago. - Scotland
  

• Central Scotland Travel Videos
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  Central Scotland , the strip of mainland north of the densely populated Glasgow-Edinburgh axis and south of the main swathe of Highlands, is an accessible, popular and richly varied region. - Scotland
  

• Glasgow and the Clyde Scotland Travel Videos
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  Rejuvenated, upbeat Glasgow , Scotland's largest city, has not traditionally enjoyed the best of reputations. - Scotland
  

• Southern Scotland Travel Videos
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  Southern Scotland divides neatly into three distinct regions: the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, and Ayrshire. - Scotland
  

• Skye and the Western Isles Scotland Travel Videos
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  A procession of Hebridean islands, islets and reefs off the northwest shore of Scotland, Skye and the Western Isles between them boast some of the country's most alluring scenery. - Scotland
  

• Highland region Scotland Travel Videos
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  The Highland region of Scotland, covering the northern two-thirds of the country, holds much of the mainland's most spectacular scenery: a classic combination of mountains, glens, lochs and rivers surrounded on three sides by a magnificently pitted and rugged coastline. - Scotland
  

• Edinburgh Scotland Travel Videos
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  Venerable, dramatic EDINBURGH , the showcase capital of Scotland, is a historic, cosmopolitan and cultured city. - Scotland
  

• Lothians Scotland Travel Videos
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  The wider rural hinterland of Edinburgh, known as the Lothians , mixes rolling countryside and attractive country towns with some dramatic historic ruins. - Scotland