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Carfin Grotto and Pilgrimage Centre 100 Newarthill Road, Carfin, North Lanarkshire, ML1 5AL |
Built in the early 1920s by local unemployed miners, this lovely grotto welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world who come to pray in peace and tranquillity. Modelled on the Lourdes Grotto in France, it has ... more
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Kelvingrove Skate Park Kelvin Way, Glasgow, EH1 2LD |
From the day the site security fences came down heralding the Parks opening the number of users has been enormous and for Land Services is a satisfying sight and justification in its belief that Glasgow skaters deserved ... more
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Hatrack 144 Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, G2 5LQ |
The Hatrack's integral framework allowed the architect to create large areas of glass surrounded by a minimal amount of decorative stone, giving the façade a lightness and modernity for which Salmon and some of th... more
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Edinburgh and Scotland Information Centre 3 Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH2 2QP |
The Edinburgh and Scotland Information Centre, adjacent to Waverley Station (follow the tic signs in the station and throughout the city), offers an accommodations service (Book-A-Bed-Ahead) in addition to the more typic... more
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Mount Stuart House and Gardens Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, PA20 9LR |
I had often seen the turrets of Mount Stuart peeping through the trees in its 300-acre park as I sailed down the coast during those happy days when I was a boat owner. The castle could have adorned the cover of any book ... more
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Nelson Monument Calton Hill, Regent Road, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5AA |
The stone structure is 106 ft high with 143 steps from a base 456 ft above sea level. The really smart aspect of this tower is the time signal installed at its top in 1852 to enable ships' captains to set their chronomet... more
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Greyfriars Tolbooth & Highland Kirk Greyfriars Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2QQ |
Elsewhere in the kirkyard is the Martyrs Monument, erected in 1709 in memory of the Covenanters killed in the 1600s. The rest of the kirkyard contains one of the best collections anywhere of monuments going back to the 1... more
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New Lanark Village New Lanark Road, South Lanarkshire, ML11 9DB |
Until now, the 180 villagers in New Lanark have been left behind as the entire television industry moves over to digital TV. Because the village is one of Scotland's top tourist attractions and a nominated World Heritage... more
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Edinburgh Experience City Observatory, Calton Hill, City of Edinburgh, EH7 5AA |
, performed Aphra Behn & Nell Gwyn--17th-Century Career Girls at the Bedlam Theatre during the last week of the festival. I would have never known that these two original plays, each penned by the actress performing ... more
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Edinburgh International Festival Various venues, City of Edinburgh |
Monteverdi's ground breaking debate on the importance of words versus music serves as one of the inspirations behind this year's programme and a traditional production of L'Orfeo directed by Gilbert Deflo and conducted b... more
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