Inverness City UK
Successive waves of settlers over many thousands of years have left their monuments and artefacts across the rugged face of the Highlands. Inverness encapsulates so much of that history from Neolithic field enclosures, cairns and stone circles, to hill strongpoints, castles and towerhouses, the carnage of Culloden the last battle fought on Scottish soil, the displacement of the Clearances and great engineering works such as the Caledonian Canal. Central to Highland culture are oral and performing traditions reflected most strongly in the Gaelic language, Mod, feis and ceilidh. This distinctive heritage stands out in an increasingly homogenised world where visitors crave difference and authenticity. Inverness is becoming the home to many arts and heritage organisations dedicated to preserving and interpreting those assets, as well as being attractive to new creative and media industries which seek to capture its essence for a global market and scattered diaspora. Tourist bed nights are expected to reach new peaks in the Year of Highland Culture 2007 which will showcase the area’s indigenous cultural attractions. It could also trigger several hugely significant projects, not least a £70m. transformation of the riverside Cultural Quarter in Inverness. Built around the newly-enlarged Eden Court theatre, this complex will include a relocated City Museum and Gallery, new Geneaology Centre/Archive, Artists studios and lofts, Hotel and Conference Centre set in a pedestrian quarter which includes a new urban park based on the old Northern Meeting facilities
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