The basalt rock formation in Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa Staffa can only be accessed by boat and is popular with tourists, who not only visit the cave, but also watch the island’s ...

Classical composer Felix Mendelssohn came to the Isle of Staffa in 1829 and wrote his famous overture, The Hebrides Opus 26, a year later. Popularly known as Fingal's Cave Overture, this music has ...

A Twinkling Wonder Tucked away in New Zealand, the Waitomo Glowworm Caves offer a celestial experience. Visitors glide ...

Fingal's Cave is my nemesis. But this time I was ready for it. Riding on a gentle swell aboard our Zodiac, we drifted toward the cavernous maw in the towering basalt columns of the Isle of Staffa ...

BBC Bitesize has looked into some of these stories. Fingal’s Cave, Isle of Staffa, Scotland On the small, uninhabited island of Staffa, just off the west coast of Scotland, you’ll find this ...

25, at The Etherredge Center. While one of Mendelssohn’s trips to the Scottish island of Staffa inspired Fingal’s Cave, it is said his Scottish Symphony was inspired by his walking tour of ...