See and do

Not to be confused with The Wallace Monument in Stirling, the Wallace Tower in Ayr predates its Stirling sibling by approximately a decade (1855-7)

Whiting Bay is a popular tourist village located on the southern half of Arran, combining the best of modern and historical Scotland.

Blackwaterfoot is a village on the South West of the Isle of Arran.

Kilmory is a small village on the south coast of Arran, between Lagg and Kildonan.

Located inside the clock tower of Kilwinning Abbey, this heritage centre contains information and artefacts of interest about the history of Kilwinning

New Cumnock is a former mining town in East Ayrshire. It expanded during the 18th century; mining remained its main industry until pits closed in the 1960s.

Jess MacDonald Brass jewellery is an exploration and tribute to our natural world.

Artist Studios

Have a free admission atmospheric hands on tour of a Royal Observer Corps decommissioned underground nuclear bunker built during the Cold War.

The formidable-looking Maybole Castle is a four-storey garret tower in the Ayrshire town of Maybole.

The only steam railway in south west Scotland, it's a 'living museum' of industrial steam and diesel trains

Monument memorialising Lesley Baillie, a muse who inspired several of Robert Burns' ballads and poems

Robert Simson was a Scottish mathematician and professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow. The Simson line is named after him

The grounds of the Civic Centre is at least the third location of the Kirkhall Sundial.

Penkill Castle is a 16th-century castle north-east of Girvan in South Ayrshire, Scotland.