{Adventures} Culzean Castle

High up on the cliffs along the coast of Scotland sits a beautiful castle, you can hear the waves crash against the rocks and sweep out to sea again like dancing ladies throwing their bodies to and fro. Birds fly high in the sky circling as if they are eager to share their stories of the things they have seen. Taking a stroll in the wilderness of the castle creates visions of the past...where a roaring horse and carriage would have sped past carrying persons of highest esteem and wealth. Walk along the garden walls for they speak of fairy tales and truth. Breath in the sweet scent of flowers blooming, greenery spilling forth, overtaking every inch. Hear the haunting echos of those time has left behind, their spirits beckoning you to explore and learn of their heritage. The fountain bubbling over the lily pads hiding the frogs, the fragrant breeze that pulls and pushes you on your way and entices your senses. The closer and closer you get to the door...what enchantments await you...the heart can barely wait...it races...jumps...glides...this is history coming alive...in this moment...you think...what a glorious way to spend the day!

I hope you enjoy darlings...if you want to see pictures from the inside...please go to their website - here and view, as I wasn't allowed to take them inside.

Have a beautiful day

♥

Dainty Doll's Boudoir:

  

Vintage dress - Sew Vintage / Flower hair clip - gift from my lil' beauties / Shoes - thrifted.

Culzean Castle {said like cull - lane} is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The clifftop castle lies within the Culzean Castle Country Park and is opened to the public. Culzean Castle was constructed as an L-plan castle by order of the 10th Earl of Cassilis. He instructed the architect Robert Adam to rebuild a previous, but more basic, structure into a fine country house to be the seat of his earldom. The castle was built in stages between 1777 and 1792. It incorporates a large drum tower with a circular saloon inside (which overlooks the sea), a grand oval staircase and a suite of well-appointed apartments.

In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States. An Eisenhower exhibition occupies one of the rooms, with mementoes of his lifetime.

{All photos of me taken by Gorgeous Gavin. All other photos taken by me, Kizzy Doll. Please do not use, copy or share without permission. All rights reserved}

{info from castle website & Wikipedia}