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Glasgow- In 1990 was appointed the European city of Culture.
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New Curiosities
John Logie Baird: The inventor of the television transmitted the first long distance images from a room at the Central Hotel in Glasgow.
Cunard Shipping Line was the corporation that built the “Queen Mary”, “Queen Elizabeth II” and “The Royal Yacht Britannia” in its shipyards on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Marmalade was created in Dundee around 1700, after a rash purchase left grocer James Keiller with a large cargo of bitter Seville oranges; as he was unable to sell them, his wife Janet added them to a preserve. Soon her delicious creation was at everyone’s table.
Edinburgh
Castle
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Every
day, since 1861, one of the castle cannons is fired at 1PM. The original
function was to inform the time to the sailors of the city’s sea port
called Leith.
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The
castle was built on an extinct volcano.
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The
First Edinburgh International Festival was carried out in 1947 and this
coincided with the date of the first Military Tattoo.
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The
Scottish Crown Jewels are kept in a special chamber in the castle.
Linlithgow
Palace
The Royal Yacht
Britannia
It
was used by the Royal Family. Today, it’s anchored at Leith Port in
Edinburgh.
The Grassmarket
Today there are many pubs and restaurants. It was one of the places where public executions took place. People rented places at their window houses to those who wanted to enjoy the show in much more detail.Loch
Katrine
You
can enjoy the lovely landscape of the Trossachs while you sail in a steam
boat called Sir Walter Scott. This region is the birthplace of Rob Roy
Macgregor.
Loch Tummel – The Queen’s View.
Loch
Lomond
Its beautiful shores formed the first National Park of Scotland and the traditional Scottish song “The banks of Loch Lomond” immortalized it.
Holyrood
House Palace
It’s
the Queen’s official residence when her majesty is in Scotland.
Princes Street
Gardens
The
Princes Street Gardens floral clock was the first of its kind in the world.
It has around 2,000
Eilean Donan Castle is one of the most photographed castles in Scotland, it was the scenery for the film “Highlander”.
