Car Hire Perth - Mini guide to Perth
Perth, situated on the River Tay, is a thriving city in the geographical heart of Scotland. With traditional museums, unique natural attractions and superb parklands, Perth is a place to expand your knowledge and delight your senses.
The city itself boasts many fine golf courses, Cherrybank Gardens, plus the Scotland's National Garden, and for the horse racing enthusiast, Perth Racecourse at nearby Scone is the UK's most northerly racecourse.
The Scone Palace is one of Perth’s most important historical attractions. Poised above the River Tay, the palace overlooks the routes north to the Highlands and east through Strathmore to the coast. Today it is the home of the Earl of Mansfield but fifteen hundred years ago, it was the centre of the ancient Celtic church. In the intervening centuries, it has been the seat of parliaments and the crowning place of Kings. It has housed the Stone of Destiny and been immortalised in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Attracting more than 10,000 visitors a year, Balhousie Castle has been the headquarters and museum of the Black Watch regiment since 1962. The present building is the result of restoration and extension carried out in the 1860s.
The Perth Museum and Art Gallery is one of Perth's most impressive buildings. The four large stone columns guard the statue of Thomas Hay Marshall, former Lord Provost of Perth. Perth Museum houses many award-winning collections featuring thousands of objects of international renown. The art collections number more than four thousand paintings, watercolours, drawings and pieces of sculpture with notable collections of well-known local and Scottish artists.
