Scotland is Britain at its most dramatic — Edinburgh's castle-topped Old Town and August festivals, Glasgow's music and design, the Cairngorms and the Highlands rolling north to the North Coast 500, and an archipelago of nearly 800 islands from Skye and Mull to Orkney, Shetland and remote St Kilda. Distilleries, Munros and long summer evenings are the constants.
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Scotland by region
VisitBritain's own regional grid.
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Central Scotland Edinburgh, Glasgow, Stirling and Loch Lomond -
Scottish Highlands & Islands Skye, the Cairngorms, the North Coast 500 and the northern isles -
North East Scotland Aberdeen's granite, Royal Deeside and the Speyside whisky trail -
Southern Scotland The Borders, Burns country and the Galloway dark skies
Headline destinations
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Isle of Skye The Cuillin, the Quiraing and the Old Man of Storr -
Scottish Highlands Glen Coe, Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and Europe's last great wilderness -
North Coast 500 516 miles round the top of Scotland -
Cairngorms National Park The UK's largest national park — arctic plateau, forests and ski runs -
Loch Lomond & The Trossachs Where the Lowlands stop and the Highlands begin, an hour from Glasgow - Orkney Islands Neolithic monuments older than the pyramids, off Scotland's north tip
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St Kilda Britain's most remote archipelago — a dual UNESCO World Heritage Site -
Islay Nine working distilleries on one Hebridean island -
Speyside More malt whisky distilleries than anywhere on Earth -
Royal Deeside Balmoral, castles and the Dee running out of the Cairngorms -
The Scottish Borders Ruined abbeys, Walter Scott's Abbotsford and the Tweed -
Galloway Forest Dark Sky Park The UK's first Dark Sky Park — the Milky Way, unaided
