Calgary travel will not pass completely Added: 08/28/2005

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Calgary is named so in honour of Calgary Bay, bays in Scotland. It fairly name Canadian Texas - " Texas in Canada " In Calgary travel you'll know that Calgary is still known as a gate in Rocky Mountains. Still from apart, for 25-30 km, it is possible to see its center - Downtown, towering skyscrapers from glass and became directly in the middle of prairie, on a background of mountains. The basic part of city--1-2-3 floor houses among trees and parks ( describing map of Calgary ) . Besides it, the city isa  located in a province of Albert, rich both agricultural, and oil resources, - the first on speed of the development and the fifth on size in Canada; with the area 965.262 sq. km (1999) and the population more than 951,400 person (2001) which annually increases approximately on 25.000 person - one of the centers of a business life in which the main offices of many large companies are located. And in spite of the fact that it is the big city, it can by the right be proud of pure air and potable water, very benevolent and friendly people, small quantity of transport problems and the lowest crime rate among large cities of Canada. On official data it borrows 31 place on a standard of living among 118 large cities of the world. And more than 8.000 hectares of parks and 300 km of avenues for bicyclists and pedestrians, and also to Rocky Mountains do its affinity its city in which to live simply very pleasantly . 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 , which you can visit in Calgary travel . 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 , not having said about service in Calgary hotels , which you can visit in Calgary travel . Calgary might come on as a redneck cow town, but it has ten or more professional theatre companies, a ballet company, an opera company and a full-blown symphony orchestra. Much of the city's highbrow cultural life focuses on the Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts , a dazzling modern downtown complex with five performance spaces close to the Glenbow Museum. It's also an occasional venue for the acclaimed Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Theatre Calgary and the well-known Alberta Theatre Projects, which usually produces five fairly avant-garde plays annually. More modest classical concerts include the Music at Noon offerings in the Central Library (Sept-April) , and the sessions - planned and impromptu - on the small stages in Devonian Gardens . The long-running and well-known Lunchbox Theatre , 2nd Floor, Bow Valley Square, offers a popular and wildly varied program aimed at downtown shoppers and passers-by; performances run from September to May and are somewhat irregular, but tend to start daily at noon (except Sun) in the Bow Valley Square on the corner of 6th Avenue and 1st Street SW . Calgary's ballet world is dominated by the young and excellent Alberta Ballet Company, who perform at various locations around the city. Opera is the preserve of Calgary Opera, whose home base is the Jubilee Auditorium . The season runs from October to April , which you can see in Calgary travel.

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