The Red Door
“It was built by a local banking family in order to give employment to the townspeople at a time when there was not much work to be had. Modelled on the Colosseum, statues of the bankers were to be placed in the windows and possibly, for all one knows, illuminated at night. But in fact for some reason – it may be that there was not enough money or it may be that death intervened – the tower was never completed and remains to this day, an object of curiosity to the many tourists who come from all over the world. It is very high up and the walk there is long but pleasant. When one arrives inside the empty structure one can walk across the circular grassy floor and hear, if it is a day in spring or summer, the birds trilling close at hand, or one can perch on the sill of one of the windows and look down at the sea which glitters in the distance. It is said that a certain lady was once looking for the Colosseum in Italy and tried to find out where it was by describing it as that building w...hich is modelled on MacCaig’s Tower in Oban.MoreLess
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