One of the six muses

Antique Spotlight: Muses in the Drawing Room

As you meander through the rooms and corridors of Ardanaiseig Hotel, you will come across a great many characters adorning the walls in painting form. Taking pride of place in the drawing room, we have six paintings of the Greek muses, from the Italian School paintings, each depicting one faculty.     In Greek mythology, the…

A wedding ceremony in the amphitheatre

The Amphitheatre

On purchasing Ardanaiseig in 1995 Bennie Gray felt that there was a real spirit to the hotel, and a resonance to the grounds and gardens – the sense of ancient happenings long forgotten. It is certainly easy to feel irrelevant among the wild surroundings of the hotel, and imagine what may have been. In fact,…