Glagow

The door to the Western Islands!

Glasgow does not simply follow fashion - it creates its own. When it comes to sheer panache, the upfront personality of the city, especially with its fabulous shopping and vibrant nightlife, is like nowhere else in Scotland!

Right in the beginning of the 1990s Glasgow celebrated its status as European “City of Culture”, and in 1999, its dazzling architecture won it the accolade of “UK City of Architecture and Design”. Since then, the city has gone from strength to strength. Glasgow is sometimes described as Britain's finest Victorian city.

Glasgow is the home to Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. The Burrell Collection in the Pollok Country Park is a haven for culture lovers.

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Old Glasgow was centered around its cathedral and expanded west into Merchant City. The symbol of Glasgow's former life as a great trading port is the "Tall Ship", built in 1896, at Glasgow harbour.

Did you know?
John Logie Baird, inventor of television, transmitted the first long distance TV pictures from a room in the Central Hotel in Glasgow
Glasgow's oldest visitor attraction is in the city's Victoria Park. The curios Fossil Grove consists of stumps and roots of trees which grew here 350 million years ago. Open daily in summer
Paisley Museum houses the world's largest collection of paisley pattern shawls.
The Cunard Shipping Line was founded in Glasgow and the liners Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth QE2 and the Royal Yacht Britannia were all built on the River Clyde at Clydebank