This lecture focuses on the travels of artists, musicians and writers in Scotland during the period when the romance of the Highlands, fostered by the tales of Ossian, made Scotland a destination for those such as Turner, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Dorothy and William Wordsworth and Coleridge.

The talk is illustrated by the music of Chopin and Mendelssohn. The routes of the travellers and the highlights (including Fingal’s Cave, the Falls of Clyde, the Trossachs, etc.) are shown by means of slides of paintings and drawings (including Mendelssohn’s little known sketches), as well as present-day views of the same scenes.