Balmoral Castle
Balmoral Castle is a large estate house in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a residence of the British royal family. It is near the village of Crathie, 9 miles west of Ballater and 50 miles west of Aberdeen.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Estate
- Description: estate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “Balmoral” and “Balmoral Castle With Parterre And Terrace Walls”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crathie Kirk and Abergeldie Castle.
Crathie Kirk
Church
Photo: DanMS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Crathie Kirk is a small Church of Scotland parish church in the Scottish village of Crathie, best known for being the regular place of worship of the British royal family when they are in residence at the nearby Balmoral Castle.
Abergeldie Castle
Castle
Photo: Peter Gordon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abergeldie Castle is a four-floor tower house in Crathie and Braemar parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It stands at an altitude of 840 feet, on the south bank of the River Dee, five miles west of Ballater, and about two miles east of the royal residence of Balmoral Castle. Abergeldie Castle is situated 2 miles east of Balmoral Castle.
Royal Lochnagar distillery
Distillery
Photo: Stefan2901, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Royal Lochnagar distillery is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery based on the Abergeldie Estate, near Balmoral Castle in Royal Deeside. It is close to the mountain Lochnagar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Crathie.
Crathie
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Crathie is a village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It stands on the north bank of the River Dee. Abergeldie Castle is 1 mile away. It was built around 1550 and had 19th century additions.
Balmoral Castle
- Categories: estate, museum, country house, garden, château, Residence of the British Royal Family, and agriculture
- Location: Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Balmoral Castle” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Balmoral-kasteel”
- Arabic: “قلعة بالمورال”
- Aragonese: “Castiello de Balmoral”
- Armenian: “Բալմորալ ամրոց”
- Asturian: “Balmoral”
- Asturian: “castiellu Balmoral”
- Asturian: “castiellu de Balmoral”
- Asturian: “Castiellu de Balmoral”
- Azerbaijani: “Balmoral qalası”
- Basque: “Balmoral gaztelua”
- Belarusian: “Балмарал”
- Belarusian: “Балморал”
- Belarusian: “Бальморал”
- Bengali: “বালমোরাল দুর্গ”
- Bulgarian: “Балморал”
- Catalan: “Balmoral”
- Catalan: “castell de Balmoral”
- Catalan: “Castell de Balmoral”
- Chinese: “巴爾莫勒爾城堡”
- Croatian: “Dvorac Balmoral”
- Czech: “Balmoral Castle”
- Czech: “Balmoral”
- Czech: “Balmoralský hrad”
- Czech: “Balmoralský zámek”
- Czech: “Hrad Balmoral”
- Czech: “Zámek Balmoral”
- Danish: “Balmoral Castle”
- Danish: “Balmoral Slot”
- Dutch: “Balmoral Castle”
- Esperanto: “Kastelo Balmoral”
- Estonian: “Balmorali loss”
- Finnish: “Balmoralin linna”
- French: “Chateau de Balmoral”
- French: “château de Balmoral”
- French: “Château de Balmoral”
- Galician: “Castelo de Balmoral”
- Georgian: “ბალმორალის ციხესიმაგრე”
- German: “Balmoral Castle”
- German: “Schloss Balmoral”
- Greek: “Κάστρο Μπαλμόραλ”
- Hebrew: “טירת בלמורל”
- Hindi: “बॅल्मॉरल कासल”
- Hungarian: “balmorali kastély”
- Hungarian: “Balmorali kastély”
- Indonesian: “Istana Balmoral”
- Irish: “Caisleán Bhaile Mhorail”
- Irish: “Caisteal Bhaile Mhorail”
- Italian: “Balmoral Castle”
- Italian: “Balmoral”
- Italian: “castello di Balmoral”
- Italian: “Castello di Balmoral”
- Japanese: “バルモラル城”
- Japanese: “バルモラル宮殿”
- Javanese: “Istana Balmoral”
- Javanese: “Kadhaton Balmoral”
- Kazakh: “Балморал қамалы”
- Kazakh: “Балморал сарайы”
- Korean: “발모럴 성”
- Korean: “밸모럴성”
- Latin: “Castellum Balmoral”
- Low German: “Balmoral Castle”
- Luxembourgish: “Schlass Balmoral”
- Macedonian: “Балморал”
- Malay: “Istana Balmoral”
- Maltese: “Kastell ta‘ Balmoral”
- Manx: “Balmoral Castle”
- Manx: “Caisteal Bhaile Mhorail”
- Manx: “Cashtal Baile Mhorail”
- Mingrelian: “ბალმორალიშ ჯიხაზურგა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balmoral Castle”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balmoral slott”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Balmoral Castle”
- Norwegian: “Balmoral Castle”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Castèl de Balmoral”
- Ossetian: “Балморалы гæнах”
- Persian: “دژ بالمورال”
- Persian: “قلعه بالمورال”
- Polish: “Balmoral”
- Portuguese: “Balmoral Castle”
- Portuguese: “Castelo Balmoral”
- Portuguese: “Castelo de Balmoral”
- Romanian: “Castelul Balmoral”
- Russian: “Бальмораль-кэстль”
- Russian: “замок Балморал”
- Russian: “Замок Балморал”
- Scots: “Balmoral Castle”
- Scots: “Balmoral”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Caisteal Bhaile Mhorail”
- Serbian: “Balmoral Castle”
- Serbian: “Балморал”
- Serbian: “Замак Балморал”
- Slovak: “Balmoral Castle”
- Slovak: “Balmoral”
- Slovak: “Zámok Balmoral”
- Slovenian: “Balmoral”
- Slovenian: “grad Balmoral”
- Slovenian: “Grad Balmoral”
- Spanish: “Castillo de Balmoral”
- Swedish: “Balmoral Castle”
- Thai: “Balmoral Castle”
- Thai: “ปราสาทบัลมอรัล”
- Thai: “ปราสาทแบลมอรัล”
- Thai: “พระราชวังบาลมอรัล”
- Tswana: “Balmoral Castle”
- Turkish: “Balmoral Kalesi”
- Ukrainian: “Балморал”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Балморал”
- Urdu: “بالمورل قلعہ”
- Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Balmoral”
- Welsh: “Castell Balmoral”
- Western Frisian: “Kastiel Balmoral”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Carnaquheen and Easter Balmoral.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Craig Gowan and Creag an Lurachain.
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