Aultmore House, a historic mansion in the Scottish Highlands that Bob Dylan owned for more than 10 years, is up for sale at a price of £3 million (nearly €3.5 million).

The singer-songwriter bought the mansion in the village of Nethy Bridge in Cairngorm National Park in Scotland – along with his younger brother David Zimmerman in 2006 for £2.2m.

“Before Covid, Bob and his brother would usually go there every year for a few weeks. They bought her because she’s strikingly beautiful, and more importantly, very, very isolated,” Tom Stewart-Moore of Knight Frank, which is managing the sale, told the BBC.

A real palace

A tree-lined driveway leads to the 1,705 sq m 1914 Edwardian home, which has 16 bedrooms – all overlooking the gardens – and 11 bathrooms.

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The four reception rooms, including one for music, are decorated with marble fireplaces.

Although renovations in 2007 modernized the electrical, heating and plumbing networks, the mansion retains a number of historic details; among them an entrance hall with a limestone staircase and wood and wrought iron balustrade.

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In the gardens, statues, fountains and stone gazebos as well as three farmhouses.

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The Nobel Prize winner’s ties to Scotland are not limited to his property there. He has noted the influence of Scottish folklorist Hamish Henderson’s Second World War poem “The 51st (Highland) Division’s Farewell to Sicily” on his own poem “The Times They Are a-Changin” as well as that of Robert Burns’ 1794 poem ” A Red, Red Rose’. Additionally, Scotland has found a place in Dylan’s body of songs, with 1997’s ‘Highlands’ on the album Time Out of Mind: ‘My heart’s in the Highlands wherever I roam’ sang Bob Dylan. “That’s where I’ll be when I get called home.”