Dundee is Scotland's fourth largest city, offering a warm welcome and a fascinating range of things to see and do. When visiting the Glass Pavilion there are also a wide variety of sights and local attractions available for your enjoyment. Listed below are a selection of the best, we feel are worthwhile visiting during your stay.

Discovery Point

Clearly the RRS Discovery is a major element of the visitor centre. It has been fully restored outside and inside and visitors can wander round the officers' mess deck and cabins, the kitchens, the engine room and storage areas. Models of some of the officers have been placed in some of the rooms to add to the interest. The ship is only 172 feet long from stem to stern and 33 feet across. And these cramped conditions were "home" for 37 men for over three years.

The visitor centre has an interesting series of displays with photographs, montages, audio-visual and multimedia presentations, information and actual relics from the Antarctic expedition. One thing it cannot recreate, however, is the intense cold of those Antarctic winters.

You can find out more about Discovery Point at their web site: www.rrsdiscovery.com.
 

Verdant Works

Verdant Works is a working Jute Mill. The story of a city, its people and the industry that made it. With a stunning range of displays including film shows, interactive computers and original machinery loving restored to working condition, Verdant Works brings history to life.

You can find out more about Verdant Works at their web site: www.verdantworks.com.

Glamis Castle

Glamis Castle, childhood home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
'A place of legends and fairytales.' Family home of the Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne and a royal residence since 1372. Childhood home of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, birthplace of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret and legendary setting for Shakespeare's famous play 'Macbeth'.

Glamis Castle is the royal house that has it all; whether you are interested in ghosts, beautiful gardens, corporate hospitality or staging your Scottish wedding at this royal castle you can be sure you will receive a warm welcome and the best of Scottish hospitality.

You can find out more about Glamis Castle at their web site: www.glamis-castle.co.uk.

Scone Palace

Scone is a place that breathes history like nowhere else in Scotland. Today, in the 21st century, it is the home of the Earls of Mansfield, and a major attraction to visitors from all over the world. Fifteen hundred years ago, it was the capital of the Pictish kingdom and the centre of the ancient Celtic church. In the intervening centuries, it has been the seat of parliaments and the crowning place of Kings. It has housed the Stone of Destiny and been immortalised in Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Poised above the River Tay, the Palace overlooks the routes north to the Highlands and east through Strathmore to the coast. The Grampian mountains form a distant backdrop, and across the river stands the city of Perth. Two thousand years ago, the Romans camped here, at the very limit of their empire. They never defeated the warlike Picts, who later came to rule Scone, but the followers of St Columba had more success. By the early 7th century, a group of early Christians, the Culdees or servants of God, had established themselves here.

You can find out more about Scone Palace at their web site: www.scone-palace.net.

Arbroath Abbey (Scottish Declaration of Independence)

Arbroath Abbey is famous for being the site of the Declaration of Arbroath, a document addressed to the Pope in 1320 and in which the Scots rebelled against English domination and swore allegiance to the excommunicated Robert the Bruce. Arbroath Abbey was built in 1178 by William the Lyon to commemorate the death of his friend, Thomas Beckett.

Arbroath Abbey church in its heyday would have been impressive to look at. The high altar was situated at the top of the church, and was where daily masses were celebrated. However, there were a total of twelve altars, with their own chapels at which daily masses also took place.

Golf at Championship Courses

We are based on the East Coast of Scotland, within the region named the "Home of Golf"-- St. Andrews. In addition, just along the coastline from St. Andrews, lie a number of championship courses such as the 1999 British Open venue Carnoustie and the most recent addition to Scottish links golf - Kingsbarns. The area is also blessed with many lesser known layouts such as, Crail, Scotscraig and Lundin Links which we highly recommend experiencing. A short drive from St. Andrews is the famous inland destination, and future Ryder Cup venue, of Gleneagles Hotel with its three picturesque and challenging courses.

Golf at Local Courses

Without doubt Scotland's east coast golden triange of world class golf courses, and the many fine other greens to suite every handicap and ever preference in between is a golfing mecca.

Scotland’s east coast has more than sixty much loved and cherished golf courses, popular with both locals and visitors.

Try Camperdown course set in a wooded parkland in Dundee, the tree-lined fairways and rolling terrain at Alyth in rural Perthsire, or many of the other non-championship courses.