On Sunday, Kylie Minogue, Lulu, Deacon Blue, and more than 2,000 performers in Hampden Park brought the curtain down on what has been praised as the "best Games ever".
Here are 15 cool facts about the just concluded 2014 Commonwealth Games.
1. Glasgow 2014 is believed to have cost more than £500m to stage
2. Team Nigeria posted 36 medals at the events, one short of its best outing in Victoria 94
3. England ended as the most successful nation at a Commonwealth Games for the first time in 28 years.
4. Ghana's close to 70 athletes could only muster two bronze medals in Glasgow.
5. More than 140 Commonwealth records were broken in Glasgow.
6. Record number of Para-sports events was introduced at the Glasgow Games.
7. Jazz Carlin became Wales first female swimming gold medalist in 40 years.
8. Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare broke Games record en route to Commonwealth 100m gold title.
9. Kiribati teenager Taoriba Biniati had never been in a boxing ring before arriving to fight in Scotland.
10. Claudia Fragapane became the first Englishwoman to win four gold medals at single Games in 84 years.
11. South Africa handed New Zealand their first ever defeat in Commonwealth rugby sevens event.
12. Gymnast Frankie Jones of Wales singlehandedly won five Gold medals and another silver medal as part of the team.
13. Australia's women amazingly stole hockey gold from England by equalising in the last 10 seconds and then polishing them off on penalties.
14. A far smaller distance separated gold and silver in the men's 10,000m won by Moses Kipsiro than in the 100m.
15. The loudest noise of the Games came when Hampden Park roared Lynsey Sharp to 800m silver after she spent the previous night in the hospital.