A likeable and booming place, whose
downtown skyscrapers soared almost
overnight on the back of an oil
bonanza in the 1970s,
CALGARY
's tight high-rise core is good for
wandering, and contains the
prestigious
Glenbow Museum .
The wooden houses of the far-flung
suburbs, meanwhile, recall the
city's pioneering frontier origins,
which are further celebrated in the
annual
Calgary Stampede , a
hugely popular cowboy carnival in
which the whole town - and hordes of
tourists - revel in a boots-and-stetson
image that's still very much a way
of life in the surrounding cattle
country. Year-round you can dip into
the city's lesser museums and
historic sites, or take time out in
its scattering of attractive city
parks.
The City
of Calgary
Downtown Calgary lies in a
self-evident cluster of mirrored
glass and polished granite facades
bounded by the Bow River to the
north, 9th Avenue to the south,
Centre Street to the east and 8th
Street to the west. A monument to
oil money, the area is...
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