Glasgow

For our visit this week, let's have a look at Scotland's largest city of Glasgow. 

Scotland was united in the Ninth Century. Glasgow is of religious origin. Glasgow Cathedral is where St. Mungo first established the city, so let's start our visit there.

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Medieval Glasgow is mostly gone. There was extensive urban renewal during the 1960s, and many residents moved to "new towns" outside the city. Glasgow is perhaps best-known for ship-building, but became a center of many industries after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.

This is what old Glasgow looked like.

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When I set up the travel photo blog of Europe, I made a mistake in putting the following photo in with Edinburgh, when it is actually of Glasgow.

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The following scenes of central Glasgow start from the same perspective as that photo, looking eastward on George Street. Nearby George Square is considered as the heart of Glasgow. The nearby St. Enoch Center is a former train station that was converted into a mall.

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The University of Glasgow began in the Fifteenth Century. It is in the West End of the city. The River Kelvin and the famous Kelvingrove Park is next to the university. If the name of Kelvin seems familiar, it is because Lord Kelvin is the one who developed the absolute temperature scale, where zero is absolute zero, which is the lowest possible temperature. To do calculations of temperature in science, it is necessary to use absolute temperature.

We saw the tower of Glasgow University on the travel photo blog of Europe.

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The University of Glasgow is one of the four original universities of Scotland. It was a focal point of what is known as the Scottish Enlightenment, which refers to the numerous scientific, intellectual and, industrial accomplishments which took place in Scotland during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. This includes the improvement of the steam engine, around which the Industrial Revolution was built, and Adam Smith's economic theories of a free-market economy. Here are some views of Glasgow University, and the nearby entertainment district, starting in the chapel of the university.

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On the east side of Glasgow is Glasgow Green. This is a very old park where the Glasgow Fair has been held, toward the end of July, since the Twelfth Century. The following scenes around Glasgow Green begin outside an old building, known as the People's Palace. 

The colorful building that tries to look as different as possible from Glasgow's traditional architecture was built around the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and is known as Templeton Business Centre. Remember that one difference between historically Catholic and historically Protestant countries in Europe is that Protestants will put old and new buildings right next to each other, while Catholics tend to keep them separated. To Catholics fitting in with one's surroundings is important while Protestants view too much emphasis on "fitting in" as a threat to freedom.

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Here is a look toward the west of Glasgow, starting inside the concert hall that is nicknamed "The Armadillo".

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When we come to the residential areas, this is Pollockshields.

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A lot of new building was done during the 1960s and 70s, particularly residential developments. Here is the one known as Castlemilk.

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This neighborhood, just east of central Glasgow, is known as Dennistoun.

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Finally, here is the area of Glasgow, known as Anderston. One ironic thing was that I did not see a McDonald's, which is the best-known Scottish name in the world as a result of the restaurant.

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