St Andrews today is a bustling small city, full of students during the academic year, and tourists during the summer months. The city itself retains the medieval structure of its past; two main broad streets leading to the cathedral at the eastern end of town, a market street, a city wall over one mile in length and several ports or gaits or entrances to the city. The most preserved ports are the West Port in South St and the Mill Port or Pends down at the Harbour. St Andrews supports a small fishing fleet and an active sailing club on its eastern shore as well as the famous golf courses and West Sands beach at its western side. Over 650,000 tourists visit St Andrews each year, yet the population of the old city is just 16,000. The student population is over 7,000.
In 1410 a group of masters, mainly graduates of the University of Paris, initiated studies in the city and by 1412 Bishop Henry Wardlaw formally established the new school as a University. Pope Benedict XIII issued six Papal Bull on 28th August 1413, placing the University of St Andrews on an equal footing with the other great Universities in Europe at that time such as Paris, Bologna, Oxford and Heidelberg.
Although much of the original university buildings have long since disappeared, the old quadrangles of St Salvator's and St Mary's Colleges still remain. St Salvator's Quad is the centre of the University today with the 15th Century Chapel on the south side and lecture rooms and meeting rooms on the north and eastern sides dating from the 19th Century.
We would love you to come and explore St Salvator's Quad in our virtual world. Walk into the chapel, the Schools and Lower College Hall to see and read interesting information about our University. Visit the Accommodation Office in Butts Wynd, to the west of the Quad, as well as the Old Union Diner nearby to read about student societies. The Student advice centre, ASC, on North St will also help you decide if St Andrews University is for you.
We would love to take you back in time with us.
The pages allow you to create a new avatar (a digital representation of yourself) which you will move around the virtual world. The details you provide at registration can be updated at any time. If you have not used a virtual world before, a training world is available at Introduction Island. Our start page offers some useful information about the software you require to view the virtual St Andrews, or indeed any of our virtual worlds (St Andrews Cathedral, Basilica, Linlithgow Palace and a Disaster Recovery scenario).
Information relating to all the Open Virtual Worlds projects, the group and their contact details can be found on our Open virtual worlds blog.
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