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Glasgow

The city of Glasgow has around 600, 000 citizens and is Scotland’s largest city and is the industrial capital of Scotland. It is situated on the west coast of Scotland and is easily reached by road, train or air.

Glasgow is one of Europe’s top twenty economic centres and is home to many of Scotland’s leading businesses. The city has many public art galleries, museums, leisure centres, theatres, also many restaurants both formal and informal, plenty pubs and clubs, and lots of beautiful parks and many more popular attractions. In addition to all the city life there is a beautiful countryside and the beaches are easily reached by car or any type of transport. Glasgow is also only forty two miles from the capital city, Edinburgh.

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Glasgow is one of the UK’s most visited cities and also held the very popular Glasgow garden festival in 1988, and was the European city of culture in 1990, and was titled the UK city of architecture and design in 1999 and has over three million tourists from all over the world visit each year.

By the later 12th centuary Glasgow’s population had reached around 1,500, making it an important settlement. In the year of 1450 Glasgow Green became Glasgow’s first public park. In 1471, Provand’s Lordship, Glasgow’s oldest house was built, directly opposite the Cathedral building.

By 1730 Glasgow’s tobacco ...

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