Blair Castle

Blair Castle is located near the village of Blair in Perthshire in Scotland. And is home to the ancestral clan Murray, as headquarters and historic, Bruce Murray. The Castle occupies a strategic position on the main road (now route A9) through the Central Scottish Highlands.

The Castle buildings listed for category A, which is included in the inventory of the foundations of the gardens and landscape design in Scotland

The Castle and gardens

The castle is one of the oldest castles contain six floors Cummings or tower comin, and retained some tissue in the 13th century, though it was built in the 15th century. Added accessories which are now كجزءا of the castle for the first time in the 16th century. The apartments were added to the South in the mid-18th century by architects John Douglas designs. There is a group of the South-East, which includes the clock tower, which was rebuilt by Archibald Elliot after the fire of 1814. Finally, I reached the castle in its current form in 1870, when it was formed by David Bryce in Scottish baronial style, added Hall.

The castle was open to the public since 1936, and the rooms of the castle there are many important collections of arms and hunting trophies, souvenirs of clan Murray, paintings, furniture, and stitch gathered by Murray family over several generations.

Dating back to the year 1269, Castle has attracted many visitors because of its fame, which turned over the centuries, since the beginnings of medieval cold ICT into strategic and political conflicts into a Georgian mansion and finally in a Victorian Castle. It is still possible to see these effects.