The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. Through 1400 years of history its fortunes have fluctuated, from its heights as one of the greatest ...

Scotland's History Early Scotland Columba founds a monastery on Iona The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to ...

For the next few hundred years, Scotland’s islands and coastal ... The raids were so awful that the monastery on Iona was abandoned. Every year on the Shetland Islands, the Up Helly Aa festival ...