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Glasgow
Glasgow Cathedral & Necropolis
At the top of Glasgow's old High Street, the Cathedral and Necropolis bring the city's medieval beginnings and Victorian confidence into the same view.
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In the City: Glasgow
Discover Glasgow through what it is as much as what it was. A vibrant city of medieval foundations, merchant architecture, visionary Mackintosh design, world-class art collections, contemporary street murals, historic markets and proud shipbuilding heritage along the Clyde.
Featured Places & Stories
12 selected places in this curated collection
West
Glasgow
Glasgow Cross & Merchant City
Glasgow Cross was once the secular heart of the old burgh; a short walk west leads into the streets where Atlantic trade helped finance a much wealthier city.
West
Glasgow
George Square & St Vincent Street: Glasgow on Screen
Glasgow's city centre has become an international film set because its streets can look convincingly like somewhere else without losing their own character.
West
Glasgow
University of Glasgow & Gilmorehill
The University has been part of Glasgow since 1451, but its move to Gilmorehill in 1870 helped create the West End that visitors recognise today.
West
Glasgow
Kelvingrove & Glasgow the Exhibition City
Kelvingrove is one of Glasgow's great museums, born from the period when the city repeatedly turned itself into an international exhibition ground.
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Hillhead, Glasgow
Mackintosh, Margaret Macdonald & The Glasgow Style
At the Mackintosh House, furniture, light, proportion, surface and artwork come together as parts of one designed environment shaped by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh.
West
Glasgow
Smug & Glasgow's Murals
Across Glasgow city centre, large-scale murals turn blank walls into a running conversation between the old city and the one living here now.
West
Glasgow
The Barras & Barrowland
At the Barras and Barrowland, Glasgow's market culture and music history occupy the same few East End streets.
West
Glasgow
Calton & Bridgeton: Weavers and Migrant Glasgow
East of the old city, weaving communities at Calton and Bridgeton became part of a Glasgow repeatedly remade by people arriving for work.
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Govan, Glasgow
Govan, Fairfield & the Clyde
At Govan, Fairfield tells how Glasgow and the Clyde built ships for the world, and how that industrial inheritance still shapes the region today.
West
Glasgow
The Burrell Collection & Pollok
The Burrell brings one of Glasgow's great private collections into the woods and parkland of Pollok, where the building and landscape are part of the experience of the art.
West
Glasgow
Glasgow Green, Labour & the People's City
Glasgow Green has served as common ground for recreation, protest, public argument and the everyday life of the city for centuries.
Private Guiding in Scotland
Shaping a private day around what interests you
Ross can weave these stories and visits into an unhurried private journey designed around your party.