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Just a couple of miles north of Perth on the A93 (catch the Guide Friday tour bus, or bus #58 from South Street) is Scone Palace (pronounced "skoon"; April-Oct daily 9.30am-5.15pm; GBP6.20; grounds only GBP3.10), one of Scotland's finest historical country homes. Owned and occupied by the Earl and Countess of Mansfield, whose family has owned it for almost four centuries, the two-storey building on the eastern side of the Tay is stately but not overpowering, far more a home than an untouchable monument: the rooms, although full of priceless antiques and lavish furnishings, feel lived-in and used.

Restored in the nineteenth century, the palace today consists of a

sixteenth-century core surrounded by earlier buildings, most built of red sandstone, complete with battlements and the original gateway. The abbey that stood here in the sixteenth century, where all Scottish kings until James I were crowned, was one of those destroyed following John Knox's sermon in Perth. Long before that, Scone was the capital of Pictavia, and it was here that Kenneth MacAlpine brought the famous Coronation Stone of Destiny and ruled as the first king of a united Scotland.

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