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- Its name is Gaelic for either the lowest crossing point of the River Forth or the upper navigable point.
- It was part of the Roman Empire…twice!
- The Forth was the frontier between Pictland and Northumbria….and yes that means Stirling was once Enlish!
- Stirling is home to both the the world’s oldest football and the world’s oldest curling stone.
- Stirling has held three coronations: James Vth, Mary Queen of Scots and James Vth.
- Stirling has Scotland’s best preserved city wall…built to stop Henry VIIIth’s troops forcing the infant Mary Queen of Scots marrying his son.
- Stirling is home to three vitrified forts…all destroyed in furious fires in excess of 1000 degrees centigrade.
- Stirling is the home of modern tartan…it having been banned north of Highland Fault after 1746…Stirling of course lay south of the line.
- Stirling sits in the lost post-Roman kingdom of Manau and its people were called the Miathi.
- Stirling is Scotland’s smallest city!
