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30 Jan 2023

The Pagan Sites of Europe Remembered (31): The Temple of Apollo, Taymouth Castle, Perthshire


Built in 1774, the Temple of Apollo at Taymouth Castle was part of the Neoclassical affectation that was then rife in much of Europe. Was it really a temple, we could well ask. Perhaps not in the sense of fanatical belief, but interest in Apollo, even in its 18th-century iteration, was something of a cult, with a focus on the intellect and the arts -- a more rarefied religion perhaps.