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Casa torre
Scalloway Castle
Tower house of the late 1500s built for Earl Patrick Stewart, who was accused of using forced labour to build it in 1599.
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Scalloway & the West Mainland: things to do
Places worth your time in Scalloway & the West Mainland
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Things to do in Scalloway & the West Mainland
Monumentos, museos, parques y miradores en la zona y sus alrededores.
Museo
Scalloway Museum
Community museum beside the castle, opened in 2012, on Scalloway and the wartime Shetland Bus to Norway; closed in winter until spring.
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Sitio histórico
Law Ting Holm
Promontory in the Loch of Tingwall, once an islet reached by a stone causeway, and the site of Shetland's parliament until the late 1500s.
Galería
Bonhoga Gallery
Gallery, shop and café in a converted mill beside the Weisdale burn, run by Shetland Arts.
Neolithic site
Stanydale Temple
Oval enclosure of large boulders, the only truly megalithic structure surviving from prehistoric Shetland; nobody knows what it was used for.
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Islands linked by bridges
Burra
West and East Burra are linked to each other by a bridge, and to the Mainland via Trondra.
Playa
Meal Beach
Sandy beach near Hamnavoe on West Burra, one of the islands linked to the Mainland by bridges.
Village and harbour
Walls
Village at the head of Vaila Sound on the West Mainland, sheltered by the islands of Linga and Vaila.
Shetland
More areas to explore
17 sights · 6 places to eat
Northmavine, Yell & Unst
Esha Ness cliffs, Ronas Hill, the islands of Yell and Unst, and Britain's most northerly sights
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10 sights · 11 places to eat
Lerwick & Bressay
Shetland's harbour town: the museum, Fort Charlotte, Clickimin Broch and the ferry to Bressay
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8 sights · 3 places to eat
South Mainland: Sumburgh, Jarlshof & Mousa
Prehistoric and Norse sites, the Mousa broch, puffin cliffs and the St Ninian's Isle tombolo
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- Scalloway & the West Mainland (area photo): Robert W Watt, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Scalloway Castle: Tom Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Scalloway Museum: Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Law Ting Holm: Bob Embleton, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Bonhoga Gallery: Robert Sandison, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Stanydale Temple: Anne Robertson, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Burra: Mike Pennington, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Meal Beach: Mat Tuck, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Walls: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Northmavine, Yell & Unst: Unukorno, CC BY 4.0, source
- Lerwick & Bressay: Florent Abel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- South Mainland: Sumburgh, Jarlshof & Mousa: swifant, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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