Robert Burns country — Scotland's most loved poet lived, loved, and is buried here
Dumfries is the largest town in southwest Scotland, sitting where the River Nith meets the Solway Firth plain — and it's where Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet, spent the last 8 years of his life, writing some of his most celebrated work including 'Auld Lang Syne' and 'A Man's A Man for A' That.' Burns's house on Burns Street is a museum; Globe Inn is the pub where he drank and carved his name into the glass with a diamond ring; and St Michael's Churchyard holds his elaborate white mausoleum. The region is also the heart of Galloway — Scotland's most underrated landscape of rolling hill…
Dumfries was a Royal Burgh from at least 1186 and served as a gateway town on the English–Scottish border through centuries of conflict. Robert Bruce was involved in the murder of his rival John Comyn at the Greyfriars Church here in 1306 — an act that committed him to open rebellion against England and set in motion the Scottish independence campaign that ended at Bannockburn. Robert Burns arrived in Dumfries in 1791, having given up farming after the failure of his Ellisland farm. He died in Dumfries in 1796 at 37, of rheumatic heart disease, leaving behind a legacy that has made 'Burns Nig…