Dunkeld Attractions
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About 12mi/19.2km to the south of Pitlochry lies the idyllic town of Dunkeld. The pretty town with its attractive market place and picturesque little houses in Cathedral Street (faithfully restored by the National Trust for Scotland; not open to the public) grew up in the late 17th C after the original settlement was destroyed by Covenanters in the Battle of Dunkeld (1689).
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Cathedral
The Dunkeld Cathedral, founded in the early 12th C, is one of the oldest in the country, although construction was not completed until 1560.