The Great Hall at Doune Castle is Winterfell in Game of Thrones

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Doune Castle is Winterfell in Game of Thrones and featured in Monty Python’s Holy Grail. Visit Doune Castle on a unique private tour of the Game of Thrones Castle in Scotland – Winterfell . Check availability by phone / Whatsapp now on +447305-294773 or contact us online.

The only Game of Thrones film locations in Scotland is Doune Castle .

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Doune Castle is unique in that it actually has five claims to movie fame . Tours run daily six days a week from 10 am to 1 pm throughout the year . Book now on +447305-294773

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Doune is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Scotland.

The Game of Thrones castle private tour start from 10 am to 2 pm and it includes a transfer from Edinburgh to Doune , a driver / guide , a stay of about an hour at the castle plus a return to Edinburgh .
Your guide will give details of the history of the castle , information about the Game of Thrones filming plus all the other films made at Doune Castle including Monty Python and the Holy Grail .

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Game of Thrones filming has taken place at a number of castles all over Europe including Scotland . Eilean Donan Castle has appeared in a number of films , including the James Bond film the World is not Enough and Highlander . The castle was not a Game of Thrones film location .

The only Game of Thrones film locations in Scotland is Doune Castle . Book online now !

Behind the scenes access

Visitors to the castle can get details about 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 ) .

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The castle was used as the set for Winterfell in the TV series Game of Thrones , an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin. The castle was also used as  “Castle Leoch” in the TV adaption of the Outlander series of novels.

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.

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The hall is accessed from the courtyard via a stair up to a triangular lobby, which in turn links the hall and kitchens by means of two large serving hatches with elliptical arches, unusual for this period. The kitchen tower, virtually a tower house in its own right, is 17 metres (56 ft) by 8 metres (26 ft). The vaulted kitchen is on the hall level, above a cellar. One of the best-appointed castle kitchens in Scotland of its date, 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.

Doune Castle is unique in that it actually has five claims to movie fame

  • Game of Thrones – Winterfell
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  •  Outlander
  • the Outlaw King
  • Mary Queen of Scots

Doune 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.

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