Scotland

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Scotland By Micaela Brunetti, Davide Marin,
Sara Tuttobene, Nicolo Piccinini and Alberto
Finocchiaro
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Index

• Cities
• Isles
• Travelling to Scotland
• Scottish food

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Cities

• Aberdeen
• Edinburgh
• Glasgow

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Aberdeen

• Welcome to the 'Granite City' of Aberdeen - a
  prosperous,
• cosmopolitan city with an international
  population and a booming oil
• industry. The city boasts spectacular
  architecture and captivating
• museums, fascinating history, a wealth of art and
  culture and a lively
• social scene.
• Aberdeen's famous 'Granite Mile', Union Street,
  is the gateway to over
• 800 shops, restaurants and bars. Visitors can
  chill-out in lovely flower
• filled parks - Aberdeen is 13 times winner of
  Britain in Bloom. Best of
• all, the city has its own golden sandy beach.

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Edinburgh

• Edinburgh, the inspiring capital of Scotland, is
  a historic, cosmopolitan and
• cultured city.
• The setting is wonderfully striking the city is
  perched(posizionata) on a series
• of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags(dirupo)
  which rise from the generally flat
• landscape of the Lothians, with the
  sheltered(riparata) shoreline(riva) of the
• Firth of Forth to the north.
• Edinburgh Castle dominates the city-centre
  skyline and from its ramparts you
• can look down on medieval lanes and elegant,
  sweeping terraces that hold
• over a thousand years of history, mystery and
  tradition.
• 'Edinburgh,' said writer Robert Louis Stevenson,
  'is what Paris ought to be'.

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Glasgow

• Overflowing with style and culture, Scotland's
  biggest city is a
• revelation to its growing number of visitors. Its
  blend of
• internationally-acclaimed museums and galleries,
  stunning architecture,
• vibrant nightlife, fabulous shopping and
  superlative wining and dining
• prove irresistible.
• Vibrant and energetic, Glasgow enjoys a
  year-round buzz that visitors just
• love, with an arts scene that regularly produces
  cutting-edge productions
• and attracts high-profile exhibitions that led to
  the city being crowned as
• a European City of Culture in 1990.

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Isles

• Benbecula
• Harris
• Lewis

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Benbecula
The small island of Benbecula lies between North
and South Uists in the Outer Hebrides. Benbecula
is small, flat, low-lying and dotted with lochs
and lochans. It is quite easy to drive straight
over it, linked by causeway to its neighbouring
Uists. There is an airport at Balivanich.
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Harris
Harris is a dramatic island in the Outer Hebrides
that boasts some of the best beaches in Scotland.
Harris is in fact part of one island, joined
with Lewis to the north. The mountains of North
Harris contrast with the rolling moors and
lochans of the north of Lewis, while South Harris
boasts some of the best beaches in the country,
such as Luskentyre, backed by the shell-sand
pasture known as machair where late spring and
summer flowers create vivid colours and set the
scene for much of the west coast of the island.
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Lewis
Lewis is the largest and northern-most island in
the Outer Hebrides, home to one of the best
prehistoric sites in Scotland, and some fabulous
beaches. The main hub on Lewis is Stornoway, by
far the largest settlement on the Outer Hebrides.
The Arnol Blackhouse is a preserved example of
the many 'blackhouses' that lie deserted on the
island .The west coast has brilliant beaches,
while much of the island is made up of peat bog,
the favoured habitat of a variety of rare
breeding birds.
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Travelling to Scotland
Travelling to Scotland from Overseas Depending
on where you are beginning your journey, you may
be able to fly direct to one of Scotland's four
main airports. If not, Scotland enjoys excellent
links with all the major European hubs which
provide a plentiful supply of onward connections.
And if you are travelling from Ireland,
Scandinavia or the Low Countries, you also have
the option of travelling by ferry to ports in
Scotland or the north of England, a short drive
from the border.
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Scottish food
Scottish
Food Scotlands unspoilt environment and a
climate without extremes provide the ideal
conditions to produce high quality food products.
The first-rate seafood, beef, lamb, game, dairy
produce, fruit and vegetables as well, of course,
as whisky give the cooks and chefs one of the
worlds best national larders to work with.

Scottish Drinks As in the rest of Britain,
Scottish pubs, which originated as travellers
hostelries and coaching inns, are the main social
institution. The focal points of any community,
Scottish pubs vary hugely, from old-fashioned
inns with open fires and heaps of atmosphere, to
raucous theme pubs with jukeboxes and satellite
TV, to upbeat, trendy café-bars. The national
drink is whisky whilst Scotland also produces
some exceptionally good cask-conditioned real
ales.