Castle Braemar, Earl of Mar

Braemar Castle

Braemar is well known for the "Braemar Royal Highland Gathering". The castle, maybe the most extraordinary scottish castle, at the first look seems to be the figment of a witty architects imagination. A bunker-like star shaped wall surrounds a complex of overlapping high frontwalls and round towers, all crowned by strange battlement balustrades. Round three-floored corner towers ascend from the second floor and protrude the narrow roofs.

When built by the Earl of Mar in 1628 the towers had cone roofs, they were brought into their modern shape in 1748. In 1689 during a Jacobite rising the castle was totally burnt down and restored using remaining parts in the 18th century. It served as an english military base where from the Highland Clans were subdued.

On 6 September 1715 the Earl of Mar proclaimed James Edward, the old pretender, King James VIII and III at Castletown in Braemar.

Castles I visited
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Edinburgh Eilean Donan Duntulm Dun Bheagan Dunrobin Cawdor Blair Atholl Braemar Kirkwall Strome Knock Moil
Armadale Castle Castle Mey Stirling Castle Tantallon Castle Thurso Castle Earl's Palace, Birsay Earl's Palace, Kirkwall, Mainland, Orkney Balmoral Castle Stuart Castle - Grampian Corgarff Castle Castle Stalker Ackergill Tower - Caithness
Armadale Mey Stirling Tantallon Thurso Birsay Kirkwall Balmoral Stuart Corgarff Stalker Ackergill Tower
Inverness Castle Balvenie Castle - Dufftown Loch Lomond Castle - Balloch Dun Sciath - Sleat, Isle of Skye Kilravock Castle near Cawdor Bishop's Palace - Elgin Keiss - the old Castle Keiss - the new Castle Castle Girnigoe - Caithness Castle Sinclair - Caithness Urquhart Castle, Drumnadrochit Old Wick Castle
Inverness Balvenie Loch Lomond Dun Sciath Kilravock Castle Elgin old Keiss new Keiss Girnigoe Sinclair Urquhart Old Wick
Carbisdale Castle Castle Tongue Kilberry Castle Castle Tarbert Stonefield Castle, near Tarbert Saddell Torisdale Skipness Carnasserie Dunadd Dunstaffnage Castle Barcaldine
Carbisdale Tongue Kilberry Tarbert Stonefield Sadell Torisdale Skipness Carnasserie Dunadd Dunstaffnage Barcaldine
Lochranza, Arran Dunaverty Castle Inveraray Castle Kilchurn Castle Ruthven Barracks Fort William Fort Augustus Fort George
Brodick Lochranza Dunaverty Inveraray Kilchurn Ruthven Barracks Fort William Fort Augustus Fort George


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