Planning your visit By Road: From Dundee, Edinburgh or Glasgow, follow the signs for the " A93 - Braemar". We are situated 2 miles North of Perth on the A93. By Air: Scone J Palace is less than an hours drive from Edinburgh Intern'l Airport and just over an hour from Glasgow Intern'l Airport. The smaller airport of Dundee is 30 minutes drive away. The local Scone Airport has facilities for light aircraft and is only 10 minutes away. The palace has helicopter landing space by prior arrangement. By Bus: "Strathtay" service no 58 (leaves South Street, Perth) to Blairgowrie stops nearby the Lime Avenue Drive. The Pinetum and Ferry Terminal: Visitors arriving at the "Superfast" terminal should follow the signs for Perth (M90). We are situated 30 minutes drive north of the David Douglas - Son of Scone "Superfast" terminal. In the Pinetum, just a short walk from the , Opening Times palace, stands a gigantic 178 year-old tree. This is the magnificent Douglas Fir 25th March - 31st October 2005 which was grown from a seed sent home Palace: 9.30am - 5.30pm (Last entry 5.00pm) Grounds 9.30am - 5.45pm and each Friday in 1826 by David Douglas, the famous 10am - 4pm (November until March) botanist and explorer. For further enquiries please contact: David Douglas was born in the village of Scone in 1799 and worked as an under- Scone Palace, Perth, PH2 6BD gardener at the palace, before heading for Tel: 01738 552300 Lo Call: 0845 126 1060 a life of adventure and discovery in the Fax: 01738 552588 wilds of North America - from where he email: [email protected] sent back over 200 species of new plants. web: www.scone-palace.co.uk Today we remember this famous son of Perth Racecourse Tel: 01738 551 597 Scone with a permanent exhibition about www.perth-races.co.uk his life in the palace. From there, the Guides in the State Rooms or private guided tours by appointment David Douglas Trail leads you on a pleasant walk through the grounds to the Pinetum, where we carry on his work with a programme of propagation and planting. Visit Glamis Castle, Scone Palace, Blair Castle, Dewar's World of Whisky and Bell's Blair Atholl Distillery FALCOIIRY DiSPLAYS THE GIFT SHOP, FOOD SHOP AHD COFFEE SHOP Scotland has a rich history of falconry - join our costumed falconer for The Palace Gift Shop has a fine selection of high quality gifts to takt traditional falconry displays with a variety of birds of prey. He will away with you, many exclusively designed for Scone Palace. answer questions about his birds, their training and hunting techniques and about falconry past and present. Each Friday in June The Palace Food Shop is where you can sample the best of Scottish and July: flying demonstrations at 11.30am and 2.30pm. produce, including The Countess of Mansfield's own range of Jams Marmalades and Chutneys. FllEET OUR LIVinG HiSTORY CHARACTERS; Jennie Douglas, the House Maid. As a maid , she sees it all and does it all ! She tells us of her daily tasks and about some of the events that are happening in the house and how they affect her. Each Saturday and Sunday in June. Charles II. The "Merry Monarch " was the last monarch to be crowned at Scone in 1651. He tells us of his coronation at Scone and the ceremony 11-13 February Galloway Antiques Fair and the intricacies of 17th century dress. But he cannot be distracted for long as 25-28 March Easter Extravaganza Weekend Cromwell is coming after him! Each 30-Aprtt-l May Central Scotland Horse Trials Saturday and Sunday in July. 29 May Falconry Display & Demo on Horseback Visit by Charles II and Loyal Subjects Annie Buchan, the local busybody. A 19 June Outdoor Performance of guided tour of the grounds of Scone "Taming of the Shrew" Palace, led by the local busybody and " wyrd woman" . Taking in the chapel, cross, abbey remains and graveyard in her way, she tells us 1-3 July Game Conservancy Scottish Fair what life was like in her time. Hear about local entertainments, 21-24 July "Spirit of the Horse" punishments, monks and witches, strange beliefs and strange tales. 11 September "Farming Yesteryear" Each Saturday and Sunday in August. THE CROWninG PLACE OF SCOTTISH KIIIGS There's so much to see and do at Scone Palace, ins no wonder that it's one of Scotland's favourite visitor attractions VisiT THE PALACE Discover the desk at which France's tragic young Queen, Marie OF KinGs Antoinette, wrote her letters prior to the days when the guillotine beckoned. Visit Scone Palace, the crowning place of Scottish You can also see the state rooms where Queen Victoria was Kings, where Macbeth, entertained on her way to the Highlands in 1842, and the Robert the Bruce and bedroom in which she slept. Charles II were crowned. Scone breathes history like If you are a lover of fine things, Scone is a unique treasury of nowhere else in Scotland. It furniture and paintings, porcelain and other objets d'art. is the family home of the Earls of Mansfield and the Outdoor Fun ancient crowning place of Scottish Kings on the Stone But it's not only history at Scone. The Palace is surrounded by of Scone. It was the capital beautiful gardens and peaceful woodland, perfect for a gentle of Pictavia in the 5th stroll or even a picnic - all under the watchful eye of the ever Century onwards. Medieval curious peacocks. There's a great adventure playground for the Parliaments were held at Scone and it was immortalised in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Here you can see where the Stone of Scone once stood and ponder on the tantalising mystery of where it might be today. You can wander down the splendid gallery (Scotland's longest room) where King Charles II strode to his coronation in 1651. During the Jacobite rebellions, The Old Pretender spent 3 weeks at Scone and his children to burn off that excess energy, not to mention the son Bonnie Prince Charlie visited in 1745. unique "tartan" maze of 2000 beech trees half green, half copper, designed by the world famous designer Adrian Fisher. The You can admire the needlework skills of maze was planted in the shape of the heraldic Murray Star. Mary, Queen of Scots' bedhangings that she worked on while in prison on Loch Leven..