Welcome to City Sightseeing Inverness

City Sightseeing bus tours are the perfect way to see Inverness. On these pages you will find information about our Inverness City tours including leaflets, maps and timetables. Inverness is the Capital of the Highlands of Scotland. Recorded history goes back to 565AD. Let us take you to see the historic buildings of Church Street, through the shopping area and along the River Ness to the leisure facilities at Bught Park. We continue to see the Caledonian Canal Locks and visit Holm Mills shopping village. More Information on our tours of Inverness

The name Inverness comes from the Scottish Gaelic “Inbhir Nis” meaning the mouth of the River Ness. The Burgh of Inverness was granted a Royal Charter by King David of Scotland in the 12th century and has grown steadily ever since. It has always been the administrative, distribution and cultural centre of Northern Scotland. Through the last quarter of the 20th century it was one of the fastest growing towns in Western Europe. This was rewarded by Inverness being granted City status at the millennium. Despite this grand status you are still offered a warm welcome to a lively place with a modern outlook.

Our tour gives an insight into the development of the city from the original street between Castle and Kirk with the oldest building Abertarff House to the recently completed Highland Archive Centre. We have had 5 castles  through the centuries with many famous visitors, not all welcome, McBeth, Robert the Bruce, Mary, Queen of Scots and Bonnie Prince Charlie among them. See the many churches including St Andrews Cathedral probably one of Iocal architect Dr Alexander Ross’s finest buildings. The recently modernised Eden Court Theatre on the banks of the River Ness is on the route as we head past the home of Shinty for Whin Park boating pond and the Swimming Pool, Sports facilities and Ice Rink.

On the Western outskirts of the City we see Tomnahurich Hill and cross the Caledonian Canal, where you could hop off for a Jacobite Cruise on Loch Ness before taking the higher ground for great panoramic views of  Kessock Bridge, The Black Isle and the Inverness Firth out to Fort George. As we return to the City Centre the flight of 5 locks at Muirtown constructed in 1822 by Thomas Telford’s to bring the Caledonian Canal to sea level comes into view.

The final section of the tour takes us by the South side of Inverness Castle to see Flora MacDonald’s statue, the 3 Graces, then along General Wades road by Bellfield Park to Holm Mills shopping village.