Fingal’s Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, UK. Famous for it’s natural acoustics. Fingal’s Cave is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns within a Paleocene lava flow.
Known as Fingal’s Cave after an epic poem by 18th-century poet James Macpherson. Romantic era composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote an overture – The Hebrides, inspired by the wonderful echoes in the cave. 19th century Austro-Hungarian guitarist Johann Kaspar Mertz included a piece titled Fingals-Höhle in a set of pieces for guitar Bardenklänge. One of Pink Floyd early songs bears this locations name. Alistair MacLean novel-based movie, When Eight Bells Toll was filmed here.
Novelist Sir Walter Scottdescribed Fingal’s Cave as “one of the most extraordinary places I ever beheld. It exceeded, in my mind, every description I had heard of it”. An incredibly beautiful wonder of nature…
