As The Traitors ' second celebrity season finale approaches, fans might be wondering where the breakfast banquets, muddy missions and turret executions actually take place.

We’ve rounded up everything you need to know about the Scottish castle hosting celebrity royalty on this series of The Traitors .

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Where is The Traitors filmed?

Ardross Castle is used in both the UK version of the show and the US adaptation hosted by Scottish actor Alan Cumming.

The 19th-century castle, complete with more than 100 acres of parkland, sits on the banks of the River Alness, just north of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands .

Ardross Castle estate was purchased by the 1st Duke of Sutherland in the late 1700s, where he built a hunting lodge.

The castle as we recognise it now began to take shape once the estate was sold to Sir Alexander Matheson, an MP and opium trader, in 1845 for £90,000.

Aiming to attract tenants to agricultural tenancies, he…