Historic Tours Of Aberdeen
discover ancient aberdeen through its visible story
We provide a range of enjoyable tours in the historic university and cathedral city of Aberdeen. Whether your interest is historical, architectural or you just want to see where your ancestors lived, we can tailor a tour for you or your customers' requirements. The area is rich in historic monuments, especially castles, archaeological sites and features of historic significance.
Our guides are enthusiastic, knowledgeable and excellent storytellers, providing information at the appropriate level of depth for each tour. Their approach is creative, flexible, and responsive: they're great at thinking on the bounce!
Walking tours
Old Aberdeen Discovery
This tour ambles through Old Aberdeen, once a baronial burgh in its own right. Highlights include the twin-spired St Machar’s Cathedral (seat of the medieval bishops) and King’s College, Scotland’s third-oldest university founded in 1495, with its crown-capped chapel.
Aberdeen for the Curious
A gentle walk through Aberdeen centre, this tour explores traces of the medieval burgh and evidence of its eighteenth century expansion. You’ll see a stunning cavalcade of granite architecture, including the famous Kirk of St Nicholas and the city’s glorious Victorian and Edwardian buildings, alongside twentieth century developments.
Walking and coach tours
Aberdeen’s Magical Medical History
Forget the Typhoid Epidemic of 1964: Aberdeen has been prominent in the field of international medicine since 1497, when the first chair of medicine in the English-speaking world was established at King’s College. This tour takes you to places associated with great scientists of the past such as Marischal College and the Royal Infirmary, as well as sites illustrating Aberdeen’s commitment to public health, from asylums to sewers!
Hard Hat Aberdeen
Stroll through Aberdeen’s industrial past with glimpses of major local trades, many now in decline or ceased altogether: fishing, shipbuilding, engineering, paper-making and granite quarrying. You’ll also see some venerable survivors: oil, the premises of the world’s third oldest newspaper printed in English, and a haulage firm established (as their vans proudly boast) in 1498. Hard hats aren’t actually necessary!
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