See and do

Situated in Rothesay, the independently run Bute Museum is the perfect place for visitors to learn about the natural and historical heritage of Bute.

The McKechnie Institute opened in 1889, thanks to the generosity of local business man Thomas McKechnie

The historic King's Cave is one of the several locations in which Robert the Bruce was said to have had his famous encounter with a spider.

The grounds of the Civic Centre is at least the third location of the Kirkhall Sundial.

Monument memorialising Lesley Baillie, a muse who inspired several of Robert Burns' ballads and poems

Auchinleck is a small village in East Ayrshire. The name in Gaelic means "field of flat stones”

Lochwinnoch is a village in the council area and historic county of Renfrewshire in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

Whiting Bay is a popular tourist village located on the southern half of Arran, combining the best of modern and historical Scotland.

The formidable-looking Maybole Castle is a four-storey garret tower in the Ayrshire town of Maybole.

15th century castle on the south shore of the Clyde Estuary

The tower is all that remain of this church dedicated to St. John the Baptist

Statuesque ruined 16th-century tower-house castle overlooking the Firth of Clyde

Alloway is a picturesque village approximately 2.5 miles from Ayr. It is most well known as the birthplace of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet.

Bute has its fair share of mysterious stones and one of the easiest examples to find on the island is at the Blackpark Plantation.

Drongan is a former mining village, in West Ayrshire approximately 8 miles from Ayr.