Glasgow
Glasgow (Tourist Board website: www.seeglasgow.com.) Only 77km (48 miles) west of the capital, Glasgow is a dynamic cultural centre, with a variety of events taking place year-round, and the world-famous Burrell Collection and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Glasgow has fine parks, and Scotland’s only complete medieval cathedral.
Kelvingrove Park’s art gallery houses works by top Renaissance and modern painters. The Royal Exchange Building houses the Gallery of Modern Art.
Hampden Park, the national soccer stadium, incorporates the new Scottish Football Museum. On the south bank of the Clyde, opposite the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, is the new Glasgow Science Centre featuring interactive attractions and the 127m (416ft) revolving Glasgow Tower. Also on Clydeside is Clydebuilt, the Maritime Museum.
Southeast of Glasgow is Lanark, where the New Lanark Visitor Centre is, a complete 200-year-old model village built by social reformer Robert Owen. On a cliff overlooking the Firth of Clyde is Culzean Castle, once home to the Kennedy family. Immediately south of the city is Hamilton, with 13th-century Bothwell Castle and the Robert Adam Chatelherault Hunting Lodge. On the way to East Kilbride is the newly opened Museum of Scottish Country Life, a 68 hectare (170 acre) attraction based on a Georgian farm at Kittochside.
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