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On this site you will find many Glasgow Hotels with 70% off standard rates. They offer the best prices in the best areas of Glasgow. GLASGOW 's earliest history, like so much else in this surprisingly romantic city, is obscured in a swirl of myth. The city's name is said to derive from the Celtic Glas-cu , which loosely translates as "the dear, green place" - a tag that the tourist board are keen to exploit as an antidote to the sooty images of popular imagination. It is generally agreed that the first settlers arrived in the sixth century to join Christian missionary Kentigern - later to become St Mungo - in his newly founded monastery on the banks of the tiny Molendinar Burn. William the Lionheart gave the town an official charter in 1175, after which it continued to grow in importance, peaking in the mid-fifteenth century when the university was founded on Kentigern's site - the second in Scotland after St Andrews. This led to the establishment of an archbishopric, and hence city status, in 1492, and, due to its situation on a large, navigable river, Glasgow soon expanded into a major industrial port . The first cargo of tobacco from Virginia offloaded in Glasgow in 1674, and led to a boom in trade with the colonies until American independence. Following the Industrial Revolution and James Watt's innovations in steam power, coal from the abundant seams of Lanarkshire fuelled the ironworks all around the Clyde, worked by the cheap hands of the Highlanders and, later, those fleeing the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, situated in the Clyde Valley on the west of Scotland. The 1990 European City of Culture, Glasgow today is a vibrant centre for both traditional and modern arts and the gateway to the islands and Highlands of Scotland. Glasgow International airport is at Abbotsinch, eight miles southwest of the city - not to be confused with Glasgow Prestwick airport, which is thirty miles south near Ayr. From the international airport, the Glasgow Airport Link bus runs from bus stops 1 or 2 into the central Buchanan Street bus station every fifteen minutes during the day. White airport taxis charge around £15. From Glasgow Prestwick airport buses to Glasgow depart from directly outside the terminal: there's an express bus or Airbus #4 (Mon-Sat every 30min, Sun hourly), if you have an air ticket but takes an hour and a half. The train station is a short walk from the terminal (alight at the airport not Prestwick Town), with trains taking 45 minutes to reach Glasgow (Mon-Sat every 30min, Sun hourly). Nearly all trains from England come into Central station , which sits over Argyle Street, one of the city's main shopping thoroughfares. Bus #398 from the front entrance on Gordon Street shuttles every ten minutes to Queen Street station , at the corner of George Square, terminus for trains serving Edinburgh and the north. The walk between the two takes about ten minutes. Bus #398 also stops at Buchanan Street bus station , arrival point for regional and inter-city coaches . Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Hotels in Glasgow provide a base to access numerous shops on Buchanan Street and Argyll Street, and in the covered malls such as the Buchanan Galleries and the St Enoch Centre. Glasgow is home to Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Other cultural attractions include The Burrell Collection, The Gallery of Modern Art in the former Royal Exchange, and The Lighthouse. The West End surrounds the hill on which the University of Glasgow lies, and is separated from the commercial centre by the Kelvin River and Kelvingrove Park. Scotlands Islands and Highlands The area out from Glasgow, Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and the Trossachs, is the frontier between the West Highlands and the Lowlands. Out to the west lies the Hebridean islands, and further to the north are the Scottish Highlands, including Fort William and Aviemore. National Express Coaches operates coach services from Glasgow to a number of cities. |
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