Urquhart Castle
Urquhart Castle is a ruined castle that sits beside Loch Ness in the Highlands of Scotland. The castle is on the A82 road, 21 kilometres southwest of Inverness and two kilometres east of Drumnadrochit.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Loch Ness and Benleva Hotel, Drumnadrochit.
Loch Ness
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Loch Ness is a lake or loch which runs for 23 miles along the fault line of the Great Glen in the Scottish Highlands. It's a mile wide, very deep, and dark with peat.
Benleva Hotel, Drumnadrochit
Hotel
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Benleva Hotel, Drumnadrochit is situated 1½ miles west of Urquhart Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strone and Lewiston.
Strone
Hamlet
Strone is a small hamlet in the administrative county of the Scottish Highlands and in the historic county of Inverness-shire. It lies on the foot of the hill, Creag na h-Iolaire, in Glen Urquhart within the Great Glen, and the closest settlement to Urquhart Castle, which lies down the hill to the East.
Lewiston
Village
Photo: Richard Haworth, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lewiston is a small linear village, situated less than 1 mile southeast of Drumnadrochit, in Inverness-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland. Lewiston is situated 1½ miles west of Urquhart Castle.
Drumnadrochit
Photo: Immanuel Giel, Public domain.
Drumnadrochit is a village in the Great Glen, the fault line that traverses the Scottish Highlands. With a population of 1130 in 2020, it stands on the west shore of Loch Ness at the outlet of the River Enrick.
Urquhart Castle
- Type: Ruin
- Description: castle that sits beside Loch Ness
- Categories: castle, destroyed building or structure, ruins, archaeological site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Highland Council, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Uzbek—“Urquhart Castle” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Urquhart Castle”
- Basque: “Urquhart gaztelua”
- Catalan: “castell d’Urquhart”
- Catalan: “Castell d’Urquhart”
- Catalan: “Castell dUrquhart”
- Chinese: “厄克特城堡”
- Danish: “Urquhart Castle”
- Dutch: “Urquhart Castle”
- Finnish: “Urquhartin linna”
- French: “château d’Urquhart”
- French: “Château d’Urquhart”
- French: “Château dUrquhart”
- French: “Urquhart”
- Galician: “Castelo de Urquhart”
- Galician: “Urquhart”
- German: “Urquhart Castle”
- Hungarian: “Urquhart vára”
- Indonesian: “Kastel Urquhart”
- Indonesian: “Kastil Urquhart”
- Irish: “Caisteal na Sróine”
- Italian: “castello di Urquhart”
- Italian: “Castello di Urquhart”
- Japanese: “アーカート城”
- Polish: “Zamek Urquhart”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Urquhart”
- Portuguese: “Urquhart”
- Russian: “Аркарт”
- Russian: “Замок Аркарт”
- Russian: “Замок Урхарт”
- Russian: “Уркуарт”
- Scots: “Urquhart Castle”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caisteal na Sròine”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caisteal Urchadain”
- Slovenian: “Grad Urquhart”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Urquhart”
- Spanish: “Castillo Urquhart”
- Swedish: “Urquhart Castle”
- Ukrainian: “замок Аркарт”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Аркарт”
- Ukrainian: “замок Уркхарт”
- Uzbek: “Arkart qal’asi”
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