Wednesday 1 April 2015

Edinburgh

The week before Easter we have been giving directions all around Edinburgh. Sandra and Iria are in their training period for being teachers, and they proposed this activity to us. What have we learn about the capital of Scotland? Let's see...

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  1. VICTORIAN STYLE
    Victorian style is a style of architecture, fashion, literature, decorative and visual arts among other areas that prevailed during the reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain.

    Victorian architecture Victorian fashion Victorian decoration

    Also, is a epoch of the history of the United Kingdom. The Industrial Revolution and the British Empire were very good and it were in the top of the great.
    The Victorian epoch was under the reign of Queen Victoria I, that she was queen for 64 years.
    ·At the first moment, when she ascended the trhone, The UK was very agrarian and rural.
    ·At the end, when she died, the UK was very industrialized and most of its territory was already connected by a railway network.
    The Victorian epoch is divided into 3 stages:
    -Early Victorianism
    -Average Victorianism
    -Late Victorianism

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  2. Scott Monument


    The Scott Monument is a Victorian Gothic monument to Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. It is the largest monument to a writer in the world. It stands in Princes Street Gardens in Edinburgh, opposite the Jenners department store on Princes Street and near to Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels.

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  3. Victorian style: Marchmont neighborhood
    Marchmont is a mainly residential affluent area of Edinburgh, Scotland. It lies roughly a mile to the south of the Old Town, separated from it by the meadows and Bruntsfield Links. To the west it is bounded by Bruntsfield; to the south-southwest by Greenhill and thenMorningside; to the south-southeast by The Grange; and to the east by Sciennes.
    The whole area was developed as a planned middle-class tenements suburb by Sir George Warrender, the owner of Bruntsfield House and the surrounding estate (also known as the "Warrender Park") in the mid 19th century. The original feuing plan laid out by architect David Bryce in 1869 called for mainly terraced villas, with a number of large, detached villas on Marchmont Road. However, this was superseded by a later plan that proposed all buildings were four or five-storey tenements. The name Marchmont was originally only used to refer to Marchmont Crescent, Road and Street, but is now used for the whole area. The Warrender name has been retained in the streets Warrender Park Crescent, Road, and Terrace, and also in the Warrender Swim Centre, traditionally known as Warrender Baths.

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  4. Highland games are events held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. While centred on competitions in piping and drumming, dancing, and Scottish heavy athletics, the games also include entertainment and exhibits related to other aspects of Scottish and Gaelic culture. The origin of human games and sports predates recorded history. An example of a possible early games venue is at Fetteresso, although that location is technically a few miles south of the Scottish Highlands. There is a document from 1703 summoning the clan of the Laird of Grant, Clan Grant. They were to arrive wearing Highland coats and "also with gun, sword, pistol and dirk".

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  5. ROSEBANK CEMETERY

    Rosebank Cemetery Gretna disaster monument.jpg
    Memorial to soldiers killed in the Gretna rail disaster of 1915.
    Details
    Established 1846
    Location Pilrig, Edinburgh
    Country Scotland, UK
    Type Public
    Size 4.37 hectares (10.8 acres)
    The old western entrance to Rosebank Cemetery (now sealed)
    Rosebank Cemetery general view

    Rosebank Cemetery is a 19th-century burial ground in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is located at the junction of Pilrig Street and Broughton Road in the Pilrig area, close to the historical boundary of Leith.

    The cemetery is projected as a category listed building.

    The cemetery was developed by the Edinburgh and Leith Cemetery Company,with David Cousin as architect, and opened on 20 September 1846. It covers an area of 4.37 hectares. Originally known as the Edinburgh and Leith Cemetery,the cemetery proved popular and was extended eastwards around 1880.The main entrance was originally from the north-west (Broughton Road) but this has been sealed. The sole entrance is now from the north-east (Pilrig Street). The latter originally had an entrance lodge above the gate, but this was demolished around 1975.

    The cemetery was in independent private ownership until around 1980 when the City of Edinburgh Council then took over the grounds.

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  6. edinburgh castle

    Edinburgh Castle dominates Scotland's capital city Its story has helped shape the nation's story.
    Battles and sieges were fought over it, royalty lived and died within its walls, and countless generations have been and inspired by it.
    The Scots and English struggled for control of the castle during the Wars of Independence. In 1314 it was recaptured from the English in a daring night raid led by Thomas Randolph, nephew of King Robert the Bruce.
    The castle has sheltered many Scottish monarchs. They include Queen Margaret, who died here in 1093, and Mary Queen of Scots,
    Her great-great-great grandson Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie - captured Edinburgh but was unable to take the castle during the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising.
    In the 1600s, the castle became a military base. Some buildings were rebuilt and new ones were raised to house a huge garrison - and provide a secure jail for prisoners of war.
    The military presence remains unbroken, but over the last 200 years the castle has become a national icon. It is now Scotland's leading tourist attraction, and a key element of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

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  7. edinburgh castle

    Edinburgh Castle dominates Scotland's capital city Its story has helped shape the nation's story.
    Battles and sieges were fought over it, royalty lived and died within its walls, and countless generations have been and inspired by it.
    The Scots and English struggled for control of the castle during the Wars of Independence. In 1314 it was recaptured from the English in a daring night raid led by Thomas Randolph, nephew of King Robert the Bruce.
    The castle has sheltered many Scottish monarchs. They include Queen Margaret, who died here in 1093, and Mary Queen of Scots,
    Her great-great-great grandson Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie - captured Edinburgh but was unable to take the castle during the 1745-6 Jacobite Rising.
    In the 1600s, the castle became a military base. Some buildings were rebuilt and new ones were raised to house a huge garrison - and provide a secure jail for prisoners of war.
    The military presence remains unbroken, but over the last 200 years the castle has become a national icon. It is now Scotland's leading tourist attraction, and a key element of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site.

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  8. Scottish bagpipes.

    Scotlands national instrument, the Bagpipe or in Gaelic "piob-mhor" (the great pipe) is not, contrary to popular belief, an instrument which has its origins in and has diffused from Scotland. The bagpipe is an instrument of great antiquity, an instrument which has its origins in the Middle East and traveled through and evolved in Europe alongside the diffusion of early civilization.

    The Roman bagpipes represented a major innovation, the addition of the reservoir.The "Oxford History of Music" makes mention of the first documented bagpipe being found on a Hittite slab at Eyuk. This sculptured bagpipe has been dated to 1,000 B.C. Biblical mention is made of the bagpipe in Genesis and in the third Chapter of Daniel where the "symphonia" in Nebuchadnezzar's band is believed to have been a bagpipe.

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  9. SCOTTISH TYPICAL FOOD:

    GenerallyGenerally Some of the typical food you get at most restaurants and bars are as follows.

    The famous Fish and Chips, usually hake or cod, baked potato or jacket potato, sausages with mash ...

    TYPICAL BREAKFAST SCOTTISH:

    The Typical Breakfast Scottish, including eggs, bacon, sausage, toast with butter, beans, black pudding (sausage made with blood), sliced sausage (like a sausage shape will square, made with pork or veal) and tattie or potato scone scones (like a cake made with potato dough or turnip), medium roasted tomato, mushrooms, and occasionally, can also be put haggies. All this, together with tea or coffee.

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  10. SCOTISH NATIONAL GALLERY
    The Scottish National Gallery is home to the large part of Scotland's collection of fine art, one of the best in the world.
    It encompasses the full range of Western art and sculpture from the Renaissance to the present day, with particularly impressive collections of Old Masters.

    The Playfair Project, completed in 2004, involved the building of the Weston Link, an underground complex linking the National Gallery of Scotland and the Royal Scottish Academy, two of 19th-century architect Henry Playfair's finest neoclassical designs. The link houses shops, restaurants, a lecture theatre and education area, and an interactive, touch-screen IT Gallery showing the collections of the National Galleries.
    One of the treasures of the National Gallery is Diego Velázquez's painting An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. One of the artist's earlier works, it belongs to the bodegón (kitchen scene) tradition and was painted from life models.

    The Art Fund broke new ground when it saved Sandro Botticelli's Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child for the nation in 1999. In little over a month, the largest grant ever provided by the Art Fund at the time, £550,000, secured what is probably the most famous painting to be acquired by any museum in the UK in the second half of the 20th century.

    Some of the the gallery's most famous works have been joint purchases, acquired after energetic Art Fund campaigns: Antonio Canova's iconic marble sculpture, The Three Graces, is shared with the V&A, while Titian's two masterpieces, Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto are jointly owned with the National Gallery in London.
    The National Gallery sits at the edge of Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens, and in good weather a visit to the gallery is worth supplementing with a stroll through this 19th-century park, with its monuments to reformer Thomas Guthrie, explorer David Livingstone, and of course the famous floral clock.

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  11. BRAIS BELLO GUIMAREY, Nº3 1ºB ESO

    TARTAN:

    The tartan is a scotland fabric type. They use this in special celebrations, like weddings, christenings... Tartan placement is an art. The tartan is a long cloth, that they put around the shoulder and the waist.

    KILT:

    It's the most special cloth in Scotland. It's like a skirt. But, men use them, too. Kilts, like tartans, only are only used in important events.

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  12. The Palace of Holyroodhouse , known as Holyrood Palace , founded as a monastery by David I in 1128, has served as the principal residence of the kings and queens of Scotland since the fifteenth century. The palace stands in Edinburgh at the end of the Royal Mile (" Royal Mile "). The Palace of Holyroodhouse is the official residence of Queen Elizabeth II in Scotland , where it happens , usually a season in early summer.

    Holyrood is the anglicized word of the Scottish Haly Ruid (" Holy Cross ").

    The palace is full of secrets , tunnels and basements passages.

    In the fifteenth century there was a guest house in the same place where today the north wing of the Palace , west of the Abbey and its cloister . Many Scottish kings were there before the construction of the Palace, and the late fifteenth century Holyrood was a royal residence and of right

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  13. Claudia Álvarez Muñoz nº1 1ºA

    Meadows Park

    Meadows Park is a park located in the district of Dukes.To trhe north Dukes Bay,on the soutwest byBird,southeast Meadow Hills and Willy,east toFrancis International Airport and finally with Steinway and East City to the west.
    Meadows Park is the biggest park in Liberty City,beating the other city park,Middle Park.The park is two attractions in the city,Quiteballoon and Liberty State Pavillion towers,wich makes the park is a major tourist attraction.

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