Dornie
Just off the Road to the Isles, north of Shiel Bridge, Dornie is a hamlet under a mile from Eilean Donan Castle, possibly Scotland's most photographed monument.
Presiding over the once strategically important confluence of lochs Alsh, Long and Duich, Eilean Donan's forbidding crenellated tower rises from the water's edge, joined to the shore by a narrow stone bridge and with sheer mountains as a backdrop.
Originally established in 1230 by Alexander II to protect the area from the Vikings, the castle lay in ruins until being rebuilt between 1912 and 1932. It has also been the setting of several major films, including Highlander and the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough
