1.0European citieshttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/european-citiesBryan Rippinhttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/european-cities/author/bryan/Gloucester - European citiesrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="YgX5q2sqOj"><a href="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/european-cities/gloucester/">Gloucester</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/european-cities/gloucester/embed/#?secret=YgX5q2sqOj" width="600" height="338" title="«Gloucester» — European cities" data-secret="YgX5q2sqOj" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/european-cities/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2011/09/catedral-gloucester.jpg700525I made an enjoyable visit to this interesting and historical English city and county town a few days ago. Founded as long ago as AD 97 by the Romans under Emperor Nerva as Colonia Glevum Nervensis, it was granted its first charter in 1155 by King Henry II. It has a radical past in both its politics and its religion. In the English Civil Wars (1642–1651) it took the side of the Parliamentarians (Roundheads) against the Royalists (Cavaliers). It has been the home of Christian dissent and now boasts, for the city and the region, an excessively large number of