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Perthshire

Where to go in Perthshire.

Perthshire sits right in the middle of Scotland, where the Lowlands meet the Highlands, and it packs in a wonderful mix of both. There are castles and palaces where kings were crowned, wooded gorges with waterfalls, and long lochs reflecting the hills. Its towns are full of character, from the Victorian resort of Pitlochry to the cathedral town of Dunkeld and the Fair City of Perth itself. It's known as Big Tree Country for good reason, so bring walking boots. These are the places in Perthshire we think are most worth your time.

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Place of the day19 hours ago

Pitlochry Putting Green.

An eighteen-hole putting green in the middle of Pitlochry on the way to the dam, the holes graded in order of difficulty, open every day from April to October.

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From our archive19 hours ago

Devil’s Elbow Viewpoint, Aberdeenshire.

A viewpoint on the Cairnwell road between Glenshee and Braemar above the Devil's Elbow, the old double hairpin that drivers once dreaded, now left to walkers. Photograph by Jack Cairney.

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Did you know19 hours ago

Alice Sinclair, whose family farms Dunsinnan in Perthshire, grew up rolling Easter eggs down Dunsinane Hill, the hill made famous by Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Dunsinnan is a working farm and estate of 2,500 acres, and Alice and her husband Alex are the fifth generation of the Sinclair family to farm and live there. When they opened its doors to guests, she admits she was 'fairly clueless about Macbeth' until she realised how keen visitors were to learn about it. The hill comes with a legend of its own too: that the Stone of Destiny was hidden there before King Edward's army came to take it from Scone, so what he carried off was a fake. Only the laird, her father-in-law, is said to know where the true stone is. Visitors can walk up the hill themselves.

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Places to visit19 hours ago

Craiganour Skyspace.

James Turrell's Skyspace on the Craiganour estate on the north side of Loch Rannoch, the only one in Scotland: a stone chamber open to the sky.

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From our guide18 hours ago

Innerpeffray Library.

Book-lovers, step this way. As the oldest lending library in the whole of Scotland, this wonderfully hushed venue exudes a rare sense of history, dating back as it does to 1680. Guided tours are available, and you’re still able to browse some of the rare titles in the collection.

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True or false18 hours ago

True or false: Queen's View, looking west along Loch Tummel in Highland Perthshire, is named after Queen Victoria.

Places to visit18 hours ago

The House of Bruar.

A large country store on the A9 by Blair Atholl, with Scottish clothing and knitwear, a food hall and butchery, and a restaurant, at the foot of the Falls of Bruar.

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From the magazine18 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 11Issue 11Autumn / Winter 2025–26

Some of the stones in Braan Sauna, beside the River Tay at The Taybank in Dunkeld, Highland Perthshire, were picked by hand from the river itself.

The sauna is heated by an award-winning, beehive-shaped wood-burning stove that gives off cedar-scented heat as it fires. Its founders, Fraser Potter and Kim Grant, say the effect is like pressing pause on the noise of everyday life. 'There’s the scent of woodsmoke and cedar, the River Tay rushing past the windows and through the arches of Dunkeld Bridge, and views of mist settling over the wooded Birnam Hill', says Kim. The sauna opens in autumn and winter only, with cold showers and plunge tanks, and the magazine's tip is to book a session over sunset, before the old lanterns on Thomas Telford's Dunkeld Bridge flicker on.

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In Perthshire17 hours ago

Perth Museum is the only place in Scotland showing Isaac Julien's film installation about Frederick Douglass, who spoke four times on the very spot where the museum stands.

Douglass escaped slavery in America and toured Britain and Ireland in 1846 speaking against it, and in Perth he gave his four talks in the old City Hall, on the site where the museum stands today. Lessons of the Hour, Julien's film of his life, is the first stop on a tour by Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland. It is free and runs until 11 April 2027.

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From Issue 13 of Hidden Scotland magazineIssue 1317 hours ago

The Last Stop Before Nowhere

Rannoch in Highland Perthshire, a wild moor of peat hags and big skies, reached by the Caledonian Sleeper at one of Britain's loneliest stations, with its old feuding clans.

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Perthshire17 hours ago

The huts at Cultybraggan, by Comrie, held the prisoners Britain judged the most committed Nazis, and now the village owns them.

Cultybraggan Camp, beside the village of Comrie in Perthshire, was built in 1941 and became Prisoner of War Camp 21, holding men the British judged the most committed Nazis. Its rows of curved huts still stand. A Cold War bunker was finished here in 1990, and in 2007 the Comrie Development Trust bought the site for the village.

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From our guide16 hours ago

Birks of Aberfeldy.

“Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,/ And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;/ Come let us spend the lightsome days/ In the birks of Aberfeldy.” So wrote Robert Burns, in his poem of the same name, and the birks (or birch trees) can still be visited on a winding circular walk through mature woodland.

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