page_title: City Centre, Dundee
section_title: Statues
hierarchical_section_title: City Centre, Dundee / Statues
caption_attribution_description: McManus Galleries, Dundee, United Kingdom
context_page_description: Until the industrial revolution the current City Centre represented the full extent of the City of Dundee, Scotland. Now roughly encircled by the Marketgait dual carriageway, the city centre is now the main shopping and commercial district. Unlike the city centre of Glasgow many of the city centre's streets are not built on a grid plan and in that way have more in common with street plan of the Old Town of Edinburgh.
context_section_description: Many of Dundee's public statues are scattered throughout the neighbourhood, subjects include Robert Burns, Queen Victoria, Admiral Duncan, the Strathmartine Dragon, James Carmichael, Desperate Dan and Minnie the Minx, there is also a plaque to William Wallace, on the supposed site where he began his war for independence by murdering the son of the English governor, sheriff or magistrate of Dundee after he had made a constant habit of bullying him and his family, although this local folk tale may or may not be true, it is known that that St Paul's Cathedral, where the plaque is located is the site of Dundee's old castle, which the army of Wallace and Andrew Moray laid siege to early in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
caption: McManus Galleries houses a museum and art gallery with a collection of fine and decorative art as well as a natural history collection
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