Culzean Castle
Culzean Castle is a castle near Maybole, Carrick, on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. It is the former home of the Marquess of Ailsa, the chief of Clan Kennedy, but is now owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The clifftop castle lies within the Culzean Castle Country Park and is opened to the public. Since 1987, an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of five pound notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.
In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States. An Eisenhower exhibition occupies one of the rooms, with mementoes of his lifetime.
The twenty closest neighbours in the database:
Glasgow (Scotland) (65 km), New Lanark (72 km), Falkirk Wheel (93 km), Inveraray Castle (100 km), Stirling Castle (100 km), Doune Castle (103 km), Edinburgh (Scotland) (119 km), Alnwick Castle (195 km), Blackpool (United Kingdom) (204 km), Balmoral Castle (211 km), Boyne Valley: Newgrange, Knowth and Battle of the Boyne (214 km), Dublin (Ireland) (243 km), Liverpool (United Kingdom) (246 km), Fort George (Highland) (252 km), Manchester (United Kingdom) (266 km), York (United Kingdom) (285 km), Llangollen (United Kingdom) (286 km), Clonmacnoise Monastery (307 km), Chatsworth House (314 km), Ludlow Castle (359 km)