Attractions in Fife Scotland

Attractions in Fife

Fife is a very popular holiday destination for golfer, fishing, bird watchers, wind surfers, kite surfers, nature lovers, and cyclists. Many of Fife's top attractions can be seen from the areas cycle ways.

One of the longest cycle ways on the Kingdom Route is the Howe of Fife route which connects St Andrews, Ceres, Glenrothes, Kirkcaldy, Burntisland, Aberdour, Inverkeithing, Dunfermline, Kinross, Newburgh, Tayport, and Leuchars.

The East Neuk cycle way lies between Anstruther, Pittenweem, and Troywood with the main attraction along the route being the Scottish Fisheries Museum at Anstruther, which has an award winning museum about the history of fishing in Scotland.

Popular attractions include the Fife Folk Museum in Ceres, Ravenscraig Castle in the east of Kirkcaldy, Black Sands, which is a small and quiet beach to the south of Aberdour, Abbot House Dunfermline - one of the oldest houses in the ancient capital of Scotland.

Other attractions include the Secret Bunker which was a former nuclear bunker hidden 100 feet below a farmhouse in Troywood.

Kellie Castle northwest of Pittenweem is the former home of the Earls of Kellie which has a very beautiful garden filled with fruit trees, roses, and herbaceous plants.

Check out Falkland Palace in the Howe of Fife, Culross Palace in West Fife, Kilminning Coast Wildlife Reserve which is northeast of Crail, one of the most popular nature reserves in Fife which has many species including oystercatchers, cormorants, gannets, eider ducks and stonechats.

 

Aberdour

:: Aberdour Silver Sands

 

Anstruther

:: Crail Museum and Heritage Centre
:: Scottish Fisheries Museum

 

Billowness

:: Billowness Beach

 

Burntisland

:: Aberdour Castle and Garden
:: Burntisland Beach
:: Burntisland Edwardian Museum
:: Kinghorn Beach

 

Crail

:: Roome Bay Beach

 

Culross

:: Culross
:: Culross Abbey

 

Cupar

:: Cairnie Mega Maze
:: Falkland Palace, Garden and Old Burgh
:: Hill of Tarvit Mansion House & Garden
:: Scotstarvit Tower
:: Scottish Deer Centre
:: Sir Douglas Bader Garden

 

Dunfermline

:: Abbot House Heritage Centre
:: Dunfermline Palace and Abbey

 

Elie

:: Elie Harbour Beach
:: Ruby Bay Beach

 

Inchcolm

:: Inchcolm Abbey

 

Kingsbarns

:: Kingsbarns Beach

 

Kirkcaldy

:: Ravenscraig Castle

 

Leven

:: Scotland's Larder

 

North Queensferry

:: Deep Sea World

 

Pittenweem

:: Kellie Castle & Garden

 

St Andrews

:: Blackfriars Chapel
:: British Golf Museum
:: Cambo Gardens
:: Craigtoun Country Park
:: Crawford Arts Centre
:: East Sands
:: Scotland's Secret Bunker
:: St Andrews Castle and Visitor Centre
:: St Andrews Cathedral
:: West Sands

 

Fife Events

January

:: Fife Festival of Music

February

:: Fairtrade Fortnight
:: Fife Festival of Music

March

:: Fairtrade Fortnight
:: Scottish Brass Band Championships
:: ‘The Lang Spoon Festival’

April

:: Links Market
:: St Andrews Golf Week

May

:: Fife Show
:: Scottish Motor fair

June

:: Newburgh Coble Boat Race & Highland Games
:: Strathmiglo Highland Games
:: Vintage Agricultural Machinery Rally
:: British Superbike Championship
:: Central and West Fife Show
:: Ceres Highland Games
:: Drambuie Fife Golf Classic
:: Fife Historic Vehicles Club Motoring Cavalcade
:: Leven Vintage Vehicle Rally
:: Markinch Highland Games

July

:: Aberdour Festival
:: Burntisland Highland Games
:: Crail Festival
:: Cupar Highland Games
:: Dunedin Dancers 19th International Folk Festival
:: East Neuk Festival
:: St Andrews Highland Games
:: T in the Park
:: Thornton Highland Gathering

August

:: Aberdour Festival
:: Anstruther Muster
:: Auchtermuchty Festival & Traditional Music Festival
:: Bruce Festival
:: Carnegie Festival of the Imagination
:: Cluny Country Fair
:: Culross Medieval Annual Burgh Fair
:: Culross Music & Arts Festival
:: Inverkeithing Highland Games
:: Lammas Fair
:: Vintage Bus Museum Annual Open Weekend
:: Women’s British Open 2007

September

:: RAF Leuchars Airshow
:: British Touring Car Championships
:: Dunfermline Strathspey and Reel Society present 17th Fiddlers' Rally
:: Elmwoodstock
:: Naturally Fife Festival and Flower Show

 

There is no shortage of things to do in Fife even if there is the odd rainy day, the only problem is fitting it all in!

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