Fraserburgh

This major 19th-century herring port still has its fishing fleet and fish market. The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses evokes the history of the 'northern lighthouses' the first of which (1787) was built on the top floor of an old tower-house, Kinnaird Castle, on nearby Kinnaird Head. The mysterious 16th-century Wine Tower is decorated with coats of arms in bas-relief. The Fraserburgh Heritage Centre has an exhibition devoted to Thomas Glover '(1838-1911), who created the modern Japanese Navy and inspired Puccini's hero in Madame Butterfly.

Memsie Cairn
(southwest of Fraserburgh)

This vast Bronze Age tomb was part of a complex containing two other burials.

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