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Calgary
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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. Other useful information
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Canada,
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