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Dunvegan Castle
Skye's most famous historic building, and one of its most popular tourist attractions, is Dunvegan Castle, seat of the chief of Clan MacLeod. It has played host to Samuel Johnson, Sir Walter Scott and, most famously, Flora MacDonald. The oldest parts are the 14th-century keep and dungeon, but most of it dates from the 17th to 19th centuries.
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Old Man of Storr
At 50m (164ft) high, the potbellied pinnacle of crumbling basalt known as the Old Man of Storr can be reached by foot from the car park in the woods to the north of Loch Leathan. The round trip takes about an hour. It's one of several natural features on the Trotternish peninsula that are among the island's most beautiful and bizarre.
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Skye Museum of Island Life
The peat-reek of crofting life in the 18th and 19th centuries is preserved in thatched cottages at Skye Museum of Island Life. Behind the museum is Kilmuir Cemetery, where a tall Celtic cross marks the grave of Flora MacDonald - a local heroine from the 1700s. It was erected in 1955 to replace the original, of which 'every fragment was removed by tourists'.
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