Tourist Attractions In Glasgow

Places of Interest In Glasgow

Places to visit in Glasgow

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Glasgow (Glesca or Glesga; Scottish Gaelic: Glaschu) is the most populous city in Scotland, the fourth most populous city in the United Kingdom, and the 27th largest city in Europe by population. [7] It was estimated to have a population of 635,640 in 2020. Straddling the historic counties of Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire, the city now forms the Glasgow City Council area, one of Scotland’s 32 council areas, and is governed by Glasgow City Council. It is located in the West Central Lowlands of Scotland on the River Clyde.

Glasgow grew from a small rural settlement on the River Clyde to become the largest seaport in Scotland and the tenth largest by tonnage in Britain. Expanding from the mediaeval bishopric and royal burgh, and later the establishment of the University of Glasgow in the 15th century, it became a major centre of the Scottish Enlightenment in the 18th century. From the 18th century on, the city grew to become one of Britain’s main transatlantic trade hubs with North America and the West Indies. With the start of the Industrial Revolution, the population and economy of Glasgow and the surrounding region grew rapidly to become one of the world’s pre-eminent centres of chemicals, textiles, and engineering; most notably in the shipbuilding and marine engineering industries, which produced many innovative and famous vessels. For much of the Victorian and Edwardian periods, Glasgow was known as the “Second City of the British Empire.”

Glasgow’s population grew rapidly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, reaching a peak of 1,127,825 people in 1938. Following comprehensive urban renewal projects in the 1960s that resulted in large-scale relocation of people to designated new towns such as Cumbernauld, Livingston, East Kilbride, and peripheral suburbs, followed by successive boundary changes, the population was greatly reduced. The Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area is home to over 985,200 people, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to over 1,800,000 people, accounting for roughly 33% of Scotland’s population. At 4,023/km2, the city has one of the highest population densities in Scotland.

Glasgow has Scotland’s largest economy and the third-highest GDP per capita of any city in the United Kingdom. The Burrell Collection, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Ballet, and Scottish Opera all have international reputations. The city was named European Capital of Culture in 1990 and is known for its architecture, culture, media, music scene, sports clubs, and transportation connections. It is the fifth most visited city in the United Kingdom. [15] The city hosted the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) at its main events venue, the SEC Centre. Glasgow hosted the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the first European Championships in 2018, and is one of the host cities for UEFA Euro 2020. The city is also well-known in the sporting world for football, particularly the Old Firm rivalry between Celtic and Rangers.

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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is a museum and art gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. After a three-year renovation, it reopened in 2006 as one of Scotland’s most popular visitor attractions. The museum features 22 galleries and exhibits ranging from Renaissance art to taxidermy and ancient Egyptian artefacts.

Location

Glasgow, rear elevation, looking west from Argyle Street.

The gallery is located on Argyle Street in Glasgow’s West End, on the banks of the Kelvin River (opposite the architecturally similar Kelvin Hall, which was built in matching style in the 1920s, after the previous hall had been destroyed by fire). It is located near the University of Glasgow’s main campus on Gilmorehill, opposite to Kelvingrove Park.

Original museum

The original Kelvingrove Museum opened in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was headquartered in Kelvingrove House, an extended 18th-century mansion to the east of the current location that was formerly the home of Lord Provost Patrick Colquhoun.

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Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Cathedral is a Church of Scotland parish church in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the oldest cathedral on the island of Scotland and the oldest building in Glasgow. Until the Scottish Reformation in the 16th century, the cathedral served as the seat of the Archbishop of Glasgow and the mother church of the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the Province of Glasgow. The two mediaeval churches in Scotland that have survived the Reformation virtually intact are Glasgow Cathedral and St Magnus Cathedral in Orkney. Until the 18th century, the mediaeval Bishop’s Castle stood to the west of the cathedral. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Mungo, Glasgow’s patron saint, whose tomb is located in the Lower Church. In the presence of David I, the first stone cathedral was dedicated in 1136. Fragments of this structure have been discovered beneath the current cathedral’s structure, which was dedicated in 1197, while majority of the current cathedral dates from a major rebuilding in the 13th century. The University of Glasgow had its initial lessons in the cathedral’s chapter house after its establishment in 1451.

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Riverside Museum

The Glasgow Museum of Transport is located at Pointhouse Quay in the Glasgow Harbour regeneration region of Glasgow, Scotland. The building was completed in June 2011. The museum won the 2013 European Museum of the Year Award.

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Gallery of Modern Art

The Gallery of Modern Art is Glasgow’s main contemporary art gallery. GoMA has a temporary exhibitions and workshops programme. Through its major biannual projects, GoMA exhibits work by both local and international artists while also addressing contemporary social issues.

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Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Glasgow Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in Glasgow, Scotland. It has several glasshouses, the most notable of which is the Kibble Palace. The Gardens have a wide variety of temperate and tropical flora, a herb garden, a chronological bed with plants arranged according to their introduction to Scotland, the UK’s national collection of tree ferns, and a world rose garden, which was officially opened in 2003 by Princess Tomohito of Mikasa. The River Kelvin runs along the north side of the Gardens and continues through Kelvingrove Park, with the Kelvin walkway providing an uninterrupted walking route between the two green spaces. In 2011, the Botanic Gardens received the Green Flag Award.

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Glasgow Science Centre

Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction in Glasgow, Scotland, located on the south bank of the River Clyde in the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area. On July 5, 2001, Queen Elizabeth II opened the Glasgow Science Centre. It is one of the most popular paid visitor attractions in Scotland. It is a purpose-built science centre with three main buildings: Science Mall, Glasgow Tower, and an IMAX theatre. Under Scottish law, it is a registered charity. Glasgow Science Centre received a five-star rating from VisitScotland in the visitor attraction category. In addition to its main location, Glasgow Science Centre manages the visitor centre at Whitelee Wind Farm, which opened to the public in 2009.

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People’s Palace

The People’s Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland, is a museum and glasshouse located on Glasgow Green that was opened on 22 January 1898 by The 5th Earl of Rosebery.

Early history

The concept of “people’s palaces” was inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, William Morris, and Annie Besant, and the Glasgow People’s Palace was inspired by its counterpart on Mile End Road in London’s East End. The East End of Glasgow was one of the most unhealthy and overcrowded areas of the city at the time, and the People’s Palace was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people. Alexander B. McDonald, the City Engineer, designed it, and William Kellock Brown decorated it with sculptures depicting Art, Science, Shipbuilding, Industry, and Progress.

Lord Rosebery described it during the opening ceremony as “a palace of pleasure and imagination around which the people may place their affections and which may give them a home on which their memory may rest.” He declared the building “open to the people forever and ever.”

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Glasgow Necropolis

The Glasgow Necropolis is a Victorian cemetery in Glasgow, Scotland. It is located to the east of Glasgow Cathedral, on a low but prominent hill. Fifty thousand people are buried here. As was customary at the time, only a small percentage of those buried are commemorated on monuments, and not every grave has a stone. There are approximately 3,500 monuments in this area.

Background

Following the establishment of Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a wave of pressure was applied to British cemeteries. This necessitated a change in the law to permit profiteering from burial. Previously, the parish church was in charge of burying the dead, but there was a growing need for an alternative. Glasgow was one of the first cities to join this campaign, owing to its growing population and declining church attendance. The Merchants’ House of Glasgow began planning the cemetery in 1831, in anticipation of a change in the law, led by Lord Provost James Ewing of Strathleven. The Cemeteries Act was passed in 1832, and Glasgow Necropolis opened in April 1833. [2] Prior to this, in September 1832, a Jewish burial ground had been established in the north-west section of the land. This small area was declared “full” in 1851.

History

The grave of William Rae Wilson, explorer and author, in Glasgow Necropolis.

The statue of John Knox on a column at the top of the hill, which predates the cemetery, was erected in 1825.

The first burials occurred in 1832 in the extreme north-east on the lowest ground and were exclusively for Jewish burials (see section below) A number of its tombs were designed by Alexander Thomson, and the grounds’ architecture was designed by John Bryce and David Hamilton.

The main entrance is reached by crossing the Molendinar Burn. David Hamilton designed the bridge, which was completed in 1836. It became known as the “Bridge of Sighs” because it was part of the route of funeral processions (the name is an allusion to the Bridge of Sighs in Venice). The ornate gates (designed by David and James Hamilton) were built in 1838 to restrict access to the bridge.

Between the gates and the bridge are three modern memorials: one for stillborn children, one for the Korean War, and one for Glaswegian Victoria Cross recipients.

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The original plan was to enter the area across the bridge via a tunnel, but this proved unfeasible. The ornate 1836 entrance still stands.

The cemetery, like most early Victorian cemeteries, is laid out as an informal park, lacking the formal grid layouts of later cemeteries. The complex topography complements this layout even more. The paths in the cemetery wind uphill towards the summit, where many of the larger monuments are clustered around the John Knox Monument.

The Glasgow Necropolis was described by James Stevens Curl as “literally a city of the dead.” Glasgow native Billy Connolly once said, “Glasgow’s a bit like Nashville, Tennessee: it doesn’t care much for the living, but it really looks after the dead.” [3]