{"id":1045,"date":"2012-07-06T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2014-05-31T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T20:13:24","slug":"duff-house-in-grampian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/duff-house-in-grampian\/07\/","title":{"rendered":"Duff House in Grampian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banff, Grampian, is one of the most imposing houses in Scotland; was built in 1735-39 for William Duff by William Adam with an unusual dispute about the bill; the owners of the house had in late 19th century, due to financial difficulties, to give up it and the house was changed first to an hotel and in 1913 a sanatorium; the Ministry of Works had it fully restored after WW2 and the Duff House was opened to the public as an outstation of the National Galleries of Scotland in April 1995; a remarkable collection of paintings and furniture from Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/castle.nicuilie.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/duff-house-gallery_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1046\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/duff-house-gallery_1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/duff-house-gallery_1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"600,262\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"duff-house-gallery_1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/duff-house-gallery_1-300x131.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/duff-house-gallery_1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1046\" title=\"duff-house-gallery_1\" src=\"http:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/duff-house-gallery_1-470x2051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banff, Grampian, is one of the most imposing houses in Scotland; was built in 1735-39 for William Duff by William Adam with an unusual dispute about the bill; the owners of the house had in late 19th century, due to financial difficulties, to give up it and the house was changed first to an hotel&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/duff-house-in-grampian\/07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Duff House in Grampian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[33,130,880,935,987,1436,1530,1708,1826,2227,2229],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-united-kingdom","tag-19th-century","tag-art-collection","tag-financial-difficulties","tag-furniture","tag-grampian","tag-national-galleries-of-scotland","tag-paintings","tag-remarkable-collection","tag-sanatorium","tag-william-adam","tag-william-duff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IfKt-gR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":794,"url":"https:\/\/wansait.com\/tranzit\/en\/brodie-castle-scotland\/10\/","url_meta":{"origin":1045,"position":0},"title":"Brodie Castle, Scotland","author":"hrnicu","date":"October 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ptotos from Brodie Castle Grampian, Scotland, near Nairn, a typical tower house , was partially burned in 1645 and remodelled in 1730s with additions of the present entrance hall and library in the 19th centuries. 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