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Places worth your time in Isle of Lewis & Stornoway
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Wahrzeichen, Museen, Parks und Aussichtspunkte in der Gegend und ihrer Umgebung.
Neolithic stone circle with stone rows, built around 2750 BC and cared for by Historic Environment Scotland, with a visitor centre nearby.
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Well-preserved broch on a rocky knoll above Loch Carloway; on its east side the wall still stands about 9 metres high.
Nine restored thatched cottages by the shore at Garenin, lived in until 1974; now holiday cottages, a café and a hostel.
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Fully furnished thatched blackhouse where a family and its animals once lived under one roof, run by Historic Environment Scotland.
Victorian country house built in the 1840s for Sir James Matheson; the modern extension houses Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean, opened in 2016.
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Arts centre on the Stornoway waterfront with an art gallery, a cinema, an auditorium and a café bar.
Memorial completed in 1924 on the highest point of Stornoway, remembering Lewis men lost in the First World War and the Iolaire.
Memorial to the Iolaire, wrecked at the mouth of Stornoway harbour on New Year's Day 1919 with more than 200 lives lost.
Single standing stone about 5.8 metres high in Ballantrushal, said to be the tallest in Scotland; it is the last stone of a circle.
Stone setting on a low hill once thought to be a cairn and stone circle, which may in fact be an early farmstead.
Unpainted red-brick lighthouse by David Stevenson, built in the 1860s at the northern tip of Lewis and automated in 1998.
St Moluag's Church in Eoropie, reached on foot along a short path from the road and one of the busiest visitor sites in Ness.
Inter-tidal sea stack near Knockaird with ruined buildings and a turf wall, the traditional stronghold of the Morrisons of Ness.
Wide sands of Tràigh Ùige in the far west of Lewis; the 12th-century Lewis chessmen were found at Uig in 1831.
The Outer Hebrides
White beaches, the Bays, Tarbert and the church at Rodel
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Machair, chambered cairns and causeways from Berneray to Eriskay
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Kisimul Castle, the beach airport and the sands of Vatersay
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