Calgary Tourism News

Downtown Calgary has an eclectic mix of restaurants and bars, cultural venues, shops (notably, TD Square, Calgary Eaton Centre, Stephen Avenue and Eau Claire Market), and public places such as Olympic Plaza. Tourist attractions include the Calgary Zoo, TELUS World of Science, the Telus Convention Center, the area around Chinatown, the Glenbow Museum, Calgary Tower, the Art Gallery of Calgary (AGC) and the Center for Arts EPCOR Performing Arts. At 2.5 acres (1.01 hectares), the Devonian Gardens is one of the largest enclosed urban gardens in the world, and is located in the 4 th floor of the TD Square (above the shopping mall ). Located in this case is based shopping mall, a resident of a large number of shops, including urban areas, Henry Singer, Holt Renfrew and Harry Rosen. The centre is also at Prince's Island Park, an urban park located just north of Eau Claire district. Directly south of downtown and Midtown is the beltline. This area is becoming one of the densest and most active mixed-use. In the districts popular base is the "Avenue 17", which is known for its numerous bars and nightclubs, restaurants and shops. During the Calgary Flames' playoff term in 2004, 17 Avenue with the assistance of more than 50000 fans and followers a night match. The concentration of the famous red jersey for fans to wear took to the street moniker playoffs, "Red Mile." Downtown Calgary is easily accessible through the city of C-Light Rail Transit (LRT) transit system.

Attractions on the west side of Calgary in the historic Heritage Park Village Historic Park, which represents life in pre-1914 vehicles with Alberta and historical work as a steam train, and a paddlewheel boat electric streetcar. The village itself includes a mixture of replica buildings and historic structures left southern Alberta. Other major attractions are the Olympic Park in Canada (Canada and Olympic Hall of Fame), Calaway Park amusement park, Spruce Meadows (equestrian / super center) and Race City Motorsport Park. In addition to many shopping areas in downtown, there are a number of large suburban shopping malls in Calgary. Among the most important are Chinook Centre Mall in the south and southeast, Westhills and Signal Hill in the south-west, and South Trail Crossing Deerfoot Meadows in the southeast, Market Mall shopping centre in the northwest, northeast and SunRidge Mall.

Petro-Canada Centre Calgary the centre can be easily recognized by their numerous skyscrapers. Some of these structures, as the Calgary Tower and the Pengrowth Saddledome are quite unique to be symbols of Calgary. Office buildings tend to focus on commercial, residential towers, while occur most frequently in central West End and the beltline, south of downtown. These buildings are iconographic of the city, the booms and busts, and is easy to recognize the different stages of development that have shaped the image of downtown. The first skyscraper construction boom took place during late 1950 and has worked in the 1970's. After 1980, during the recession caused by falling oil prices and the National Program of Energy, many highrise construction projects were immediately arrested. It was not until late 1980 and early 1990 that major construction resumed, initiated by the Olympic Winter Games of 1988 and spurred by the growth of the economy.

In total, there are 10 office towers that are at least 150 meters (500 feet) (usually around 40 storeys) or more. The biggest of these is Petro-Canada Centre, which is the highest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto. Calgary Bankers Hall Tours are also the highest twin towers in Canada. Several large office towers are planned for the center: the Bow, Jameson Place, Penny Lane Torres (East and West), Centennial Plaza (two laps), Downtown (two laps), and the highly anticipated (but only rumour) and Imperial Oil II First Canadian Centre towers. Since 2007, Calgary has completed 220 tall buildings, with another 21 under construction, another 13 approved for construction and another 10 proposed.

To connect a large number of office buildings of downtown, the city also has the largest network Skyway (high internal pedestrian bridges), officially called the +15. The name comes from the fact that bridges are generally 15 feet (4.6 m) above the ground.