Tourist attractions Ballater

The summer residence of the Royal Family; there is an exhibition in the ballroom relating a century of royal life on the banks of the Dee.

The castle, near the source of the River Don, controls a ford over the Spey Valley road via the Lecht pass. The 16C fortified house was a hunting lodge and was later turned into a garrison for government troops after the 1748 rising, at which time th..