The Scottish city of Glasgow is notable for the fact that it is an amazing combination of antiquity and new technologies. Ancient houses here are adjacent to modern shopping centers, narrow alleys flow into wide avenues filled with cars … At the same time, modern Glasgow is a powerful industrial center that has a huge impact on the economy of Scotland.
In 1990, this city was officially recognized as the “City of European Culture”. And indeed, there are a lot of cultural and historical values. In all of Scotland, only Glasgow has a subway. In terms of population, Glasgow ranks first among all Scottish cities, bypassing even the capital, Edinburgh in this parameter. One of the local attractions is the house of Lord Provence. He is famous for the fact that the eminent lord erected it with his own hands more than 5 centuries ago. The famous cartoon character Scrooge McDuck, according to his story, hails from Glasgow.
It is here that the highest (meaning the height of the building itself) cinema on Earth is located. This is Cineworld, an 18-screen movie theater that was opened to the public in 2001. Not all areas of Glasgow are safe to visit. In the dark, in some parts of the city it is not safe to travel, especially on foot. Opened here in 1877, the Mitchell Public Library is the largest reference library in all of Europe. In total, there are 37 public libraries in Glasgow. And in the Mitchell library is stored more than 1.3 million books.
The method of criminal reprisal, in which the mouth is cut from ear to ear, originated here, and throughout the world it is known as the “Glasgow smile”. Another local attraction is the statue of the Duke of Wellington. She would not be so famous if it were not for the strange custom of the townspeople from time to time to put on the head of the duke burly cones. The city government even stated that every year about 10 thousand British pounds are spent from the budget to regularly remove these same cones. About half of all Pakistanis in Scotland live in Glasgow. Here they have a fairly large diaspora, numbering more than 15 thousand people. Trains in the Glasgow metro – orange.
