What's It Like Visiting STIRLING CASTLE in 2025? - Scotland Walking Tour | 4K | 60FPS скачать в хорошем качестве

What's It Like Visiting STIRLING CASTLE in 2025? - Scotland Walking Tour | 4K | 60FPS

Virtual Scotland revisited Stirling Castle in 2025 to see if anything had changed since our previous visit, and to see if it was still worth visiting. We hope you enjoy this walking tour of beautiful Stirling Castle. Stirling Castle, located in Stirling in central Scotland, is one of the largest and most historically and architecturally important castles in Scotland. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification in the region from the earliest times. Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures remain from the fourteenth century, while the outer defences fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century. Before the union with England, Stirling Castle was also one of the most used of the many Scottish royal residences, very much a palace as well as a fortress. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542, and others were born or died there. There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle. Stirling Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and is now a tourist attraction managed by Historic Environment Scotland.