Calgary, located in Alberta, is an attractive and beautiful city that is situated on the banks of Bow River. It is close to Alberta’s majestic Rocky Mountains. Snuggled in the foothills of Canada’s Rocky Mountains, Calgary, Heart of the New West TM is a place where the visitors come to explore the heritage of Canadian West. The safe, clean and vibrant city offers the best of all worlds – a cosmopolitan city of more than 1 million people and breathtaking outdoor adventure in pristine wilderness.

The well-known visitor attraction of Calgary is Calgary Stampede. This features a large parade and world-class rodeo that attracts more than a million people every year. Canada Olympic Park is multi-purpose athletic facilities designed for skiing, snowboarding, bobsleigh during the winter and mountain biking during summer.

The Pengrowth Saddledome is home of NHL’s Calgary Flames as well as being the venue for countless events and concerts throughout the year. Glenbow Museum, Calgary Tower and Eau Claire Market are other nice places that you can visit year round. The eastern face of the Rockies as its backdrop, the crisp concrete-and-steel skyline of Calgary, Alberta seems to rise from the plains as if by sheer force of will.

Calgary is also the hub of country’s fifth largest metropolitan area and the largest between Vancouver and Toronto. Calgary happens to be one of the sunniest places in Canada. Summers tend to be sunny and often warm, usually accompanied by the short, but heavy thunder storms. Winter does not tend to so harsh in Calgary as in other parts of the Canada. However, the temperatures seem low, the lack of humidity decreases the winter chill.