touring Dunfermline & fife
Experience the living past in ancient Dunfermline, Walk through 900 years of Scottish history in a day.
Dunfermline 's royal and monastic past dominate the town which can boast a royal palace, a 12th -century abbey (which is the final resting place of Robert the Bruce and the burial site of eleven other Scottish kings and queens), the restored 15th-century Abbot House and the cave in which St Margaret bathed the feet of the poor. King Malcolm Canmore established his court after the death of Macbeth at the now ruined fortified tower in the heart of Pittencrieff Glen. Dunfermline was the birthplace of James I in 1394 and of Charles I in 1600.
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