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Glasgow is one of the liveliest and most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe. The city has been reborn as a centre of style and vitality set against a backdrop of outstanding Victorian architecture. Glasgow boasts world famous art collections, the best shopping in the United Kingdom outside London, and the most vibrant nightlife in Scotland; there is something for everyone in this thriving city.
Scotland’s largest city, and the fourth most populous city in Britain, Glasgow owes its rapid development during the Industrial Revolution to its situation on the Clyde. The city sits on the Clyde River and is therefore part of the Clyde Valley, just 20 miles from the sea to the north-west. It is also surrounded by coalfields.
The city’s prosperity had begun earlier, in the 17th century, when the Glasgow port began to handle a flood of goods from the new world. Heavy industry shipbuilding developed in the 19th century. Glasgow is served by an underground which the queen re-opened in 1979; it is now one of the most modern in the world. Meanwhile Glasgow Airport lies seven miles to the west and Glasgow Prestwick is some way outside the city by the coast to the south-west.
There are many impressive buildings and top draws around the city. In Pollok Park, three miles outside the centre, the fabulous Burrell collection of paintings, sculptures and other works of art is housed in an award-winning building. Glasgow Cathedral, begun in the 12th century and completed at the end of the 15th, is considered the finest example of pre-reformation Gothic in Europe.
The city’s university was established as early as 1451 meanwhile and treasures in its Hunterian Art Gallery include paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens and Whistler. The Hunterian museum is based on the wide-ranging collections of an 18th century surgeon. Glasgow has several outstanding art galleries and museums, including the Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Haggs Castle, a museum for children and People’s Palace which contains a visual record of the history and life of the city.
The area's rural pursuits are every bit as magical. From the spectacular coastal hills around Inverclyde and the country parks, historic towns and heritage sites of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire, to the sheltered woodlands of the Clyde Valley, Greater Glasgow and Clyde Valley is Scotland in miniature.
Glasgow’s reputation sky-rocketed after 1990 thanks to its role as European Capital City of Culture in the year. Later, it was declared a city of architecture and design in 1999, and it is not hard to see why given the number of impressive buildings around its streets. Finally, in 2006, readers of the Conde Naste Traveller magazine honoured Glasgow by voting it their ‘favourite UK city’.