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About Scotland |
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About Scotland |
The City of Aberdeen
Granite City, Silver City, City of Roses and the Oil Capital of Europe are some of the names the city of Aberdeen is called by people around the world. The Granite or Silver City is from that city was built of grey granite shimmering like silver under the sunshine. Aberdeen’s ‘Granite Mile’ is a home of over 800 shops, restaurants and bars.
Aberdeen is outstanding for its parts and gardens. It has won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Britain in Bloom ‘Best City’ award ten times, the overall Scotland in Bloom competition twenty times and the large city category every year since 1968. Most recently, it won the 2006 Scotland in Bloom ‘Best City’ award along with the International Cities in Bloom award.
Since the discovery of oil deposits in the North Sea during the late 20th Century, Aberdeen has turned to be the centre of Europe’s petroleum industry known as the Oil Capital of Europe. The city’s industry has been then largely depended on the oil industry for the last three decades. Serving the oil industry and rescue services, Aberdeen’s heliport is the busiest commercial heliport in the world according to the Aberdeen Official Guide (2007). Traditional industries such as fishing, textile mills, ship building and paper making, are replaced with high technology sectors such as electronics design and hi-tech industries.
With two leading universities in the city, the University of Aberdeen and Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen is the centre for its agricultural and soil researches and food and nutrition. The Rowett Research Institute, for example, is a world renowned food and nutrition research centre which has produced three Nobel laureates.