Visitors to King's College will be able to take a step back in time in one of the city's most historic districts.
The University of Aberdeen has produced Walking with History, a self-guided walking tour of King's College, which takes visitors around 14 Old Aberdeen landmark buildings, including the magnificent King's College Chapel.
The tour, written and researched by Dr Grant Simpson, a former Reader in History at the University, will be launched today (Saturday 13 September) to coincide with the Aberdeen Doors Open Day.
Dr Simpson writes: "Over the centuries the combination of church, university and trading post has created a townscape which is unique in Scotland. King's College remains a conservation area gem. Many of the old academic buildings survive and the University has sensitively grafted its new buildings around this ancient core."
The free leaflet is part of the public education programme for the King's College Conservation Project - one of the most ambitious restoration projects undertaken by the University in decades.
The task to return several of its historic buildings to their former glory involves several of Scotland's finest stonemason and craftspeople.
They are using traditional methods and materials in the spirit of the stonemasons who built King's Chapel for the University's founder Bishop William Elphinstone over 500 years ago.
Angus Donaldson, Director of Estates, said: "The University and the City is rightly proud of our built heritage at King's College but it is a working university campus. The King's College Conservation Project represents our commitment to our own built heritage, and our pro-active and responsible attitude towards it."
Free copies of the tour are available in the foyer of the King's College Centre, next to King's College Chapel, where visitors will also be able to see Masters of Stone, a display tracing the history of the buildings being restored and the some of the techniques involved.