Name: Dunvegan  Castle
Country: Skye
Country: Scotland 
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This romantic fortress is still occupied by the Macleod family whose ancestors erected it in the Middle Ages. The present structure is a nineteenth-century transformation of a castle that was begun in the thirteenth century.

Dunvegan stands on the top of a rock projecting into the sea. The first detectable building is the substantial gnat tower, 14.6 x 10.7 metres (4B x 35 ft), which stands in the north-east and which has been embellished. The tower has 32metre  thick walls, and it is used today, among other things, to display many historic Scottish relics. One early feature of the castle still visible is the remnant of a sea gate which enabled the castle to receive supplies if the landward side was blockaded by enemies.

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