The castle facing it is Tantallon Castle, Auldhame, East Lothian, is a semi-ruined mid-14th-century fortress consisting of a single wall blocking off the headland, with the other three sides naturally protected by sea cliffs. The steep-sided rock rising from the sea is Bass Rock, a seabird sanctuary, home to a large colony of gannets, in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. In 1547, the four-year-old Mary Queen of Scots was brought here for safety by her mother, Mary de Guise, after the Scots defeat at the Battle of Pinkie. The ruined abbey is Inchmahome Prior, on an island in the middle of Lake Menteith in Stirling (the only 'Lake' in Scotland) an Augustine priory founded in 1238. One of the most visited attractions in the Scottish highlands, it's no stranger to the screen Eilean Donan has also been seen in Highlander, 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough, two costume adventures: Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948) with David Niven, and The Master of Ballantrae (1953) with Errol Flynn, as well as Loch Ness (1996), romantic comedy Made of Honor and Shekhar Kapur’s epic Elizabeth, The Golden Age. Partially destroyed in a Jacobite uprising in 1719, Eilean Donan lay in ruins until it was bought in 1911, restored, and opened to visitors in 1932. The castle on the lake with a stone arched bridge, is the 13th century Eilean Donan Castle on an islet in Dornie, eight miles east of Kyle of Lochalsh on the A87, Wester Ross. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai location: the fantasy song Tum Paas Aaye: Eilean Donan Castle, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland | Photograph: wikimedia / David Iliff
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