From July 12 to 18, Orkney will welcome around 2,000 athletes from 24 island groups across the globe to compete in 12 sports: ...

With a population of 22,000, Orkney may seem small, but there is a lot to entertain the 200,000 annual cruise visitors keen ...

“Not to mention, you rarely meet anyone else.” St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall, the main town of Orkney Islands, Scotland. Of all the cinematic seascapes to explore, perhaps none is better ...

Magnus Erlendsson co-ruled Orkney alongside his cousin Hakon ... that the box was original to the translation of St Magnus’ relics into the cathedral around AD1150, where it remained until ...

in the far north-west of Orkney Mainland, and thence to the impressive St Magnus Cathedral, in Kirkwall, built about two decades later to safeguard his now hallowed relics. The first stage entails ...

A service at St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney paid tribute to the 8,648 sailors who died during the Battle of Jutland and a service of remembrance also took place on board HMS Duncan at Jutland Bank ...

Performing a new work named after the 2023 Starlink rocket explosion, it seems Kathryn Stott will be ending her career with a ...

The islands are also dotted with Norse heritage in architectural form, including St Magnus Cathedral, which was founded in 1137. Before the arrival of the Vikings, the Orkney Islands had been home ...

Orkney Islands Council is pleased to be in ... Boismortier, and Marais in St Magnus Cathedral. [St Magnus, Friday 16 June] Café Zimmerman - including works by JS Bach, Telemann, CPE Bach, with ...

Volunteer graffiti hunter Melba Leonard was the first to record this mark on a pillar A survey of St Magnus ... Orkney Archaeology Society, said the discoveries underlined the fact that the ...

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