Experiencing Scotland 感受美丽独特苏格兰
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Experiencing Scotland 感受美丽独特苏格兰
Scotland is a unique and austere place, laden with history, where you can
find aristocratic palaces and castles, as well as the traditional parades
in national costumes. It has some of the most beautiful cities in Europe,
a living testimony of a proud and splendid past.
In order to see and discover the true soul of Scotland today, what forged
the character of this splendid region, we have to go towards the northern
regions, to the Grampian Mountains. Beautiful and unspoiled, it was
difficult to farm. The Scots subdued the environment with simple spades
and strong arms.
The history of this ancient struggle, and its people's ancient love affair
with the hard land, is enclosed within the walls of the Angus Folk Museum.
You are able to get a feel of the typical rural atmosphere of times past
from the everyday artifacts displayed here.
From coastal Aberdeen in towards the interior of the Grampian Mountains
there runs the Castle Trail, a road that touches on many fortresses, which
are witnesses of continual revolts against the dominion of neighboring
England in Scottish history.
Perhaps the most uplifting moment for Scottish autonomy is the one
experienced inside this ancient abbey of Arbroath, where, in 1320; the
Declaration of Independence was celebrated, at the instigation of King
Robert the Bruce. He carried out the plan for autonomy drawn up by the
great popular hero William Wallace, to whom cinema has dedicated the
wonderful film Braveheart, the winner of five Oscars.