page_title: Portree
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caption_attribution_description: English: Boats in the harbour at Portree, Isle of Skye
context_page_description: Portree is the largest town on, and capital of, the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It is the location for the only secondary school on the island, Portree High School. Public transport services are limited to buses.
  Portree has a harbour, fringed by cliffs, with a pier designed by Thomas Telford.
  Attractions in the town include the Aros centre which celebrates the island's Gaelic heritage. Further arts provision is made through arts organisation ATLAS Arts, a Creative Scotland regularly-funded organisation. The town also serves as a centre for tourists exploring the island.
  The Royal Hotel is the site of MacNab's Inn, the last meeting place of Flora MacDonald and Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1746.
  The town plays host to the Isle of Skye's shinty club, Skye Camanachd. They play at Pairc nan Laoch above the town on the road to Struan.
  Around 939 people can speak Scottish Gaelic.
  The A855 road leads north out of the town, passing through villages such as Achachork, Staffin and passes the rocky landscape of the Storr before reaching the landslip of the Quiraing.
context_section_description: "Census 2001". Population figures Portree. Archived from the original on 27 May 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  "Portree, Raasay & Central Skye". A Guide. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  Murray, W.H. (1966) The Hebrides. London. Heinemann. Pages 154-155.
  Portree Regeneration (15 September 2007). "Portree". Archived from the original on 17 November 2007.
  "ATLAS Arts - bringing art and audiences together in Skye and Lochalsh". Creative Scotland. Creative Scotland. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
  "Portree" Undiscovered Scotland. Retrieved on 15 September 2007.
  Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) The Scottish Islands. Edinburgh. Canongate. Pages 173-4
  "Skye Camanachd" skyecamanachd.com. Retrieved 26 September 2007.
  Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003) Ainmean-àite/Placenames. (pdf) Pàrlamaid na h-Alba. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  BT History 1976
  "Skye: Prabost UK climate averages". Met Office. Archived from the original on 25 January 2020. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
  C.Michael Hogan, (2011) Sea of the Hebrides. Eds. P. Saundry & C.J.Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Earth. National Council for Science and the Environment. Washington DC.
  Whisp, Kennilworthy (2001). Quidditch Through the Ages. WhizzHard Books. pp. 31–46. ISBN 1-55192-454-4.
caption: Boats in the harbour at Portree, Isle of Skye
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