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The town of Banff has a long trading pedigree. It goes back to the 12th century when it was one of the Hanseatic League towns and had a fleet which traded in the Mediterranean and the Baltic. Then herring fishing boomed and faded, and now Banff is in semi-retirement with its fine buildings and gardens all around and pleasure craft bobbing in its harbour.
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Unknown Of interest • Duff House is a beautiful Georgian Baroque mansion, designed in 1735 by William Adam. It has had a number of roles – including a POW camp – and is being prepared to house part of the National Galleries of Scotland collections. • Banff Castle is also a William Adam house (1750) and has connections with General San Martin, liberator of Argentina, who lived in Banff during his exile. There is apparently a square in Buenos Aires called Plaza Banff, which acknowledges the hospitality he received in those days. • Slains Castle, seat of the Earls of Erroll at Cruden Bay, was the inspiration for the vampire count’s Transylvanian castle in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. An early draft of the book had Count Dracula arriving in Britain at Slains, though this was subsequently changed to Whitby in Yorkshire |