Game of Thrones tours
Doune Castle is Winterfell in Game of Thrones .Visit Doune Castle on a unique private tour of the Game of Thrones Castle in Scotland – Winterfell . Check availability by phoning us now on +447305-294773 or contact us online . Private tours Edinburgh.
This tour costs £200 for a group of up to 4 people . Each tour features
- music - TV / film themes and Scottish music
- photography - we help customers to take the best possible pictures on their trip
- information abut Scottish culture and arts
Also available - Game of Thrones and Outlander tours - visit Doune Castle plus three Outlander filming locations . Check availability by phoning https://privatetoursedinburgh.com/castle-tours/tour-of-four-ancient-scottish-castles/
Game of Thrones castle tour Tours for groups of up to four people run four times a day, six days a week from 10 am to 1 pm in winter .
- Doune Castle is Winterfell in Game of Thrones
- Doune is Winterfell, home of the house of Stark
- Featured in Monty Python’s Holy Grail
- Castle Leoch in Outlander
- Private tour for up to four people
- Day trip from Edinburgh
- Game of Thrones Doune Castle
- Doune Castle tours - Day trip from Edinburgh
The castle was used as the set for Winterfell in the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–present), an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin.
Filming took place in the courtyard and the Great Hall . Doune is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Scotland.
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Behind the scenes information
Your driver/ guide will give you the history of the castle and details of Game of Thrones filming in the Great Hall and courtyard of the castle .
Insider access
Take the audio tour of the castle narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones and Outlander's Jamie Fraser ( Sam Heughan ) .
The Great Hall is 20 metres by 8 metres , and 12 metres high to its timber roof, again a 19th-century replacement.The hall has no fireplace, and was presumably heated by a central fire, and ventilated by means of a louvre like the one in the modern roof. No details of the original roof construction are known, however, and the restoration is conjectural.Large windows light the hall, and stairs lead down to the three cellars on ground level.
The kitchen tower, virtually a tower house in its own right, is 17 metres (56 ft) by 8 metres (26 ft). One of the best-appointed castle kitchens in Scotland of its time , it has an oven and a 5.5-metre (18 ft) wide fireplace. A stair turret, added in 1581 and possibly replacing a timber stair, leads up from the lobby to two storeys of guest rooms. These include the “Royal Apartments”, a suite of two bedrooms plus an audience chamber, suitable for royal visitors.
Your guide will give you his unique Insights into Scottish culture ,music and art including Jack Vettriano
Doune Castle has five claims to move fame -
- Game of Thrones - Winterfell
- Outlander - Castle Leoch
- the Outlaw King
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- Mary Queen of Scots
Doune Castle has featured in several literary works . In Sir Walter Scott’s first novel, Waverley (1814), the protagonist Edward Waverley is brought to Doune Castle by the Jacobites.
The castle was used as a location in MGM’s 1952 historical film Ivanhoe which featured Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC adaptation of “Ivanhoe” in 1996 also featured Doune as a location. The castle was used as a stand-in for the fictional “Leoch Castle” in the TV adaption of the Outlander series of novels.
Game of Thrones Doune Castle
Doune is Winterfell, home of the house of Stark .
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