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The entrance hall of the Chambers proudly displays a mosaic of the city's coat of arms on the floor. The arms reflect legends about Glasgow's patron saint, Saint Mungo, and include four emblems - the bird, tree, bell, and fish - as remembered in the following verse:
A tapestry hanging in the hall is intended to represent Glasgow's past and present, and from a distance appears almost Japanese in style.
Pillars of marble and granite give way to staircases of marble, freestone , and alabaster, and a ceiling decorated in gold is topped by a stained glassStrictly speaking, stained glass is glass that has been painted with silver stain and then fired. Depending on its thickness, this stains clear glass with a gold/yellow/brown color. This appears most typically in the golden haloes depicted in church windo dome.
The CouncillorA councillor is a member of a council (such as a city council), particularly in the U. and its former colonies. The US equivalent is councilman or councilwoman''. It is not the same as a counselor, who provides counsel or advice. Councillors In the United's Corridor, containing councillors' mailboxes and decorated in Italian faienceFaience or faience is the conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed earthenware on a delicate pale buff body. The name is simply the French name for Faenza, in the Romagna near Ravenna, where a valued painted ware on a clean, opaque pure-white grou, leads to the Committee Rooms, where formal business committees meet, and an impressive library.
From the corridor one passes through into the Council Chamber. This is where the Council meets formally, and is one of the most impressive rooms in the City Chambers. There are seats for each of the 79 councillors, all facing the Lord ProvostA Lord Provost is the Scottish equivalent of a Lord Mayor. Four cities, Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow have the right to appoint a Lord Provost instead of a provost (mayor). A privilege beyond that given to Lord Mayors is that the Lord Provost is ex (the Glasgow equivalent of the lord mayorIn the United Kingdom, the office of Mayor or Lord Mayor had long been a ceremonial post, with little or no duties attached to it. The most famous example is that of the Lord Mayor of London. Traditionally towns, boroughs and cities have had the right to found in London and other cities), his Depute, and the Chief Executive, who are seated behind the maceThis article is about the personal weapon and its ceremonial derivative, for other meanings of mace please see mace (disambiguation An advance on the club, a mace is a wooden, metal-reinforced, or metal shaft, with a head made of stone, copper, bronze, ir. A public gallery looks down on the proceedings, and a small press galleryThe press gallery is the part of a parliament where journalists are allowed to sit or gather to observe and then report speeches and events. This is generally one of the galleries overlooking hte floor of the house. The term has also come to describe the is located at the side.
The Lord Provost's main office is decorated in the same VenetianVenice ( Italian Venezia German Venedig , the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto, population 271,073 (2001). The city stretches across numerous small islands in a marshy lagoon along the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater l style as the rest of the building. Many famous visitors, including the Royal family have signed the visitor book here.
The municipal mace is kept in an ante-room leading to the Lord Provost's office. Part of the ritual of the Council's proceedings is that the mace is carried by the Council Officer when leading the Lord Provost into the Council Chamber to chair full council meetings. The mace is made from gold-plated silver, and was presented to the council in 1912.
Next to the Council Chamber, you come across three rooms used for civic functions and large meetings: the Satinwood Salon, Octagonal Room, and Mahogany Salon. These rooms are decorated in fine woods as their names imply, and also house a selection of fine paintings.
The grandest room in the Chambers is the Banqueting Hall. Its magnificence has impressed heads of state, and it has witnessed many different types of events, from formal civil ones to record launches, fashion shows, children's Christmas parties and private functions. Nelson Mandela received his Freedom of the City here in 1993.
The hall is 33.5m long by 14.6m wide and 15.8m high. The carpet comes in three sections which are rotated regularly to prevent wear. The carpet design reflects the ornate pattern of the roof. Huge murals decorate the walls, depicting the granting of the city's charter, its history and culture, and the four main Scottish rivers. The hall's electric chandeliers, or "electroliers", were designed in 1885.
The daily tours of the Chambers conclude with the Upper Gallery on the third floor, which lets one see the detail on the beautiful dome visible from the other floors, as well as portraits of former Lord Provosts.
The City Chambers of Glasgow, then, are well worth inclusion in any traveller's visit to the city, and its architectural features and position as a seat of local government will also ensure its appeal to locals and other Scots.
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