{"id":2833,"date":"2010-11-18T09:53:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T09:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:07","slug":"historic-scotland-opens-its-doors-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/historic-scotland-opens-its-doors-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Scotland opens its doors for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/huntlycastle11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"huntlycastle\" width=\"310\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2835\" \/>Historic Scotland is once again offering free admission to its properties over the St Andrew&#8217;s Day weekend. The free weekend runs from Saturday 27 November to Tuesday 30 November. Highlights include Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness, Huntly Castle (pictured), Skara Brae on Orkney and Iona Abbey. Many of the properties can be combined with a local walk found on Walkhighlands for example why not visit Huntly Castle and take in this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/huntly-castle.shtml\">circular walk<\/a> along the River Deveron?<\/p>\n<p>The participating properties are:<br \/>\n Aberdour Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Arbroath Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Arnol Blackhouse (not open on 28th November, Sunday)<br \/>\n\u00b7Blackness Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Bothwell Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Caerlaverock Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Cardoness Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Castle Campbell<br \/>\n\u00b7Corgarff Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Craigmillar Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Craignethan Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Dallas Dhu Distillery<br \/>\n\u00b7Dirleton Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Doune Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Dryburgh Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Duff House<br \/>\n\u00b7Dumbarton Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Dunblane Cathedral<br \/>\n\u00b7Dunfermline Palace<br \/>\n\u00b7Dundrennan Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Dunstaffnage Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Edinburgh Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Edzell Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Elgin Cathedral<br \/>\n\u00b7Fort George<br \/>\n\u00b7Glasgow Cathedral (normally a donation only based site without admission charges)<br \/>\n\u00b7Huntingtower Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Huntly Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Iona Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Jedburgh Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Linlithgow Palace<br \/>\n\u00b7Maeshowe Visitor Centre<br \/>\n\u00b7Melrose Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7New Abbey Corn Mill<br \/>\n\u00b7Rothesay Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Skara Brae<br \/>\n\u00b7Smailholm Tower<br \/>\n\u00b7Spynie Palace<br \/>\n\u00b7St Andrews Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7St Andrews Cathedral<br \/>\n\u00b7St Vigeans<br \/>\n\u00b7Stanley Mills<br \/>\n\u00b7Stirling Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Sweetheart Abbey<br \/>\n\u00b7Tantallon Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Tolquhon Castle<br \/>\n\u00b7Trinity House<br \/>\n\u00b7Urquhart Castle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic Scotland is once again offering free admission to its properties over the St Andrew&#8217;s Day weekend. The free weekend runs from Saturday 27 November to Tuesday 30 November. Highlights include Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness, Huntly Castle (pictured), Skara Brae on Orkney and Iona Abbey. Many of the properties can be combined with a local walk found on Walkhighlands for example why not visit Huntly Castle and take in this circular walk along the River Deveron? The participating properties are: Aberdour Castle \u00b7Arbroath Abbey \u00b7Arnol Blackhouse (not open on 28th November, Sunday) \u00b7Blackness Castle \u00b7Bothwell Castle \u00b7Caerlaverock Castle \u00b7Cardoness<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/historic-scotland-opens-its-doors-for-free\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22546,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/22546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}