Galloway’s towns and villages offer much to attract our visitors. Many of these are specifically linked with local interest:
Newton Stewart is known as the Gateway to the Galloway Hills, including the Range of the Awful Hand, Cairnsmore of Fleet, and Merrick. It is also a market town, still supported by a weekly cattle mart and offering a selection of shops and cafés. We are also very proud of our local cinema here, of the Art Nouveau period, which seats about 200 people.

Other nearby towns include, Wigtown – Scotland’s Book Town, Castle Douglas - the Food town and Kirkcudbright – the Artist’s Town.

In this small area we boast a local brewery, the Sulwath Brewery in Castle Douglas and a whiskey distillery at Bladnoch.

Galloway's farming influence is evident in some local delicacies such as the Ice Cream from Cream o' Galloway near Gatehouse-of-Fleet, various specialist cheese makers and the famous Galloway Beef.

Galloway also offers regular calendar events, including:

Events Calendar: