THE WORLD'S BEST CASTLE? - Eilean Donan Castle

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  • Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
  • Eilean Donan Castle is one of the most photographed and picturesque castles in the whole of the world. Each year, hundreds of thousands of visitors travel miles to go and visit the beautiful area, and the fortification that is surrounded by three different lochs that lead to the sea. The surrounding scenery of Eilean Donan makes it the perfect place to create a castle, as does the fact initially a castle may have been built there to protect the Scottish from the Vikings. As the lochs next to it lead to the sea, it would have been perfect for Vikings to raid the castle.
    Eilean Donan is a castle that is steeped in Scottish history and clan history, and it's been the site of mass executions, battles, sieges and so much more. It was taken a number of times by warring factions, and even by the Spanish during the Jacobite Rebellion who were then ousted by the English. The castle was eventually destroyed before it was rebuilt in the 1900s in beautiful and spectacular fashion. Today it is one of the best castles in the world, and one of the most spectacular.
    So join us today as we look at 'THE WORLD'S BEST CASTLE? Eilean Donan Castle.'

Комментарии • 54

  • @amaccama3267
    @amaccama3267 3 года назад +14

    As a McKenzie thank you for teaching me some of my own family history.

    • @rocksnot952
      @rocksnot952 2 года назад +1

      Yeah, but in Highlander, it's owned by Clan McLeod.😄

    • @martygriffin7176
      @martygriffin7176 2 года назад +1

      I am a McRae descendant

    • @vlogmancsa8453
      @vlogmancsa8453 2 года назад

      @@martygriffin7176 same

  • @pamelatraves6524
    @pamelatraves6524 3 года назад +2

    Thank You from this Canadian McMillian (no A) on this Wonderful Castle. I would Love to go there.😘💖🌷🌼🌺🌺✌

  • @elizabethspedding1975
    @elizabethspedding1975 3 года назад +6

    Castles are very romantic.🌹

    • @leoperidot482
      @leoperidot482 6 месяцев назад

      They are now. Before it would've been disgusting and smelly.

  • @ruiseartalcorn
    @ruiseartalcorn 2 года назад +1

    This is my favourite castle and I visit as often as possible.

  • @michellederus3655
    @michellederus3655 3 года назад +4

    Love this!

  • @glenncheatham1320
    @glenncheatham1320 3 года назад +4

    Beautiful.

  • @AmberPearcy
    @AmberPearcy 3 года назад +3

    Lovely video!

    • @TheFortress
      @TheFortress  3 года назад +1

      Thanks Amber!

    • @michaelhawkins7389
      @michaelhawkins7389 2 года назад

      @@TheFortressI think Alnwick is the best castle , please do a vidoe on this castle :(

  • @deanwallden297
    @deanwallden297 2 года назад +1

    Went there . Great setting for a castle. Very interesting place

  • @deniseatkins9407
    @deniseatkins9407 3 года назад +2

    What a beautiful place

  • @Tinatortoise
    @Tinatortoise 2 года назад

    Been there, found it by accident. Beautiful place x

  • @sherirobinson6867
    @sherirobinson6867 3 года назад +2

    Castles are really interesting

  • @jerryorgan6729
    @jerryorgan6729 2 года назад +1

    The narrator states at 1 min 14 seconds that the castle guards lochs that lead to the North Sea. This is incorrect. The castle
    is on the west coast of Scotland and the loch lead out to the North Atlantic

  • @isabellagumbys7525
    @isabellagumbys7525 6 месяцев назад +1

    This Castle belongs to the McRae CLAN....I'm one of them 😊😊

  • @sarahisip4109
    @sarahisip4109 Год назад

    What month was this filmed in?

  • @nancy-katharynmcgraw2669
    @nancy-katharynmcgraw2669 2 года назад +2

    MacRae clan, here!

    • @martygriffin7176
      @martygriffin7176 2 года назад +1

      I am a macrae descendant.... my maternal grandmother was a macrae

    • @pengy4792
      @pengy4792 Год назад +1

      My Mum was a a MacRae -and we used to call this Pappy'sCastle

  • @NeilTheHippy
    @NeilTheHippy 3 года назад +3

    Used in the first highlander film.

  • @KumaBean
    @KumaBean 2 года назад

    It is beautiful and it's location stunning, but it has nothing on Mont Orgueil Castle down here in Jersey, lol

  • @MachoSquatcho
    @MachoSquatcho Год назад

    My clan castle! I mean to visit one day.

    • @ronaldmcrae4896
      @ronaldmcrae4896 11 месяцев назад

      It was on my bucket list. At 78 I finally made it in May of this year. My Granddaughter said to the ticket agent "my grandpa's a MacRae" and the woman said oh, welcome home! It brought tears to my eyes. You need to make it happen, can't describe the feeling.

  • @TheNostorian
    @TheNostorian 2 года назад +1

    Isnt that the castle from Highlander?

  • @threshingfloor8591
    @threshingfloor8591 Год назад

    You missed a trick-Highlander Movie (1986) was filmed here.

  • @notwocdivad
    @notwocdivad 2 года назад

    Have you filmed a video of Bamburgh castle in Northumberland? It was recently used in the new Indiana Jones movie!

  • @fonziebulldog5786
    @fonziebulldog5786 2 года назад

    Reminded me of the castle in Highlander.

    • @nt7519
      @nt7519 2 года назад

      Should do. That's were the McLeod stronghold scenes were filmed.

  • @douglasfraser2089
    @douglasfraser2089 7 месяцев назад

    The Castle looks better from a distance

  • @nt7519
    @nt7519 2 года назад

    Externally very beautiful. The interior is a far more modern feel, which drops it down the list for my favourite UK castle.

  • @letoubib21
    @letoubib21 3 года назад +2

    Ahem,, "best" and "most beautiful" are *not* synonyma *. . .*

  • @speakupriseup4549
    @speakupriseup4549 2 года назад

    You make a cake, but you build a building.

  • @aaronsaunders6974
    @aaronsaunders6974 7 месяцев назад

    Mackenzie reminds me of this one criminal clan in Ireland. Forget what

  • @douglasfraser2089
    @douglasfraser2089 2 года назад

    Want to know more about my Scottish Ancestry

  • @dpt6849
    @dpt6849 3 года назад +1

    Highlander...

  • @Brinta3
    @Brinta3 2 года назад

    I’ve visited this castle. It’s a beautiful location , but not much of a castle.

  • @chloefonte7827
    @chloefonte7827 3 года назад +1

    A very hot Scot once proposed to me here. ♥️

    • @nickybritain4900
      @nickybritain4900 3 года назад

      Chloe, you can’t stop there. What was your reply / response to the question?

    • @TheFortress
      @TheFortress  3 года назад

      Awww! Romantic!

    • @letoubib21
      @letoubib21 3 года назад

      And? Still married?

  • @douglasfraser2089
    @douglasfraser2089 7 месяцев назад

    I think red stone Bothwell Castle is better

  • @michaelhawkins7389
    @michaelhawkins7389 2 года назад

    Nothing of this castle is original , was destroyed in 1700s , and the one we see today was rebuitin the early 1900s

  • @leoperidot482
    @leoperidot482 6 месяцев назад

    I'd take Manderly Castle over Donan.

  • @FabioPoggi1
    @FabioPoggi1 Год назад

    No

  • @thelastdruidofscotland
    @thelastdruidofscotland 2 года назад

    its fake, rebuilt in the 1920's, and its eeeeelian donan

  • @Badkitty17
    @Badkitty17 4 месяца назад

    I’m a MacRae , and I’m related . Can I move in ? My old trailer isn’t doing it for me 😊

  • @robbabcock_
    @robbabcock_ 2 года назад

    Wonderful video!