Glasgow has for a great many years endeavored to compete with Scotland’s capital Edinburgh in the tourism business however in the previous couple of decades Glasgow has been re-energized by considerable inward funding a lot of it directed to the improvement of the business of tourism.
The Glasgow Garden Festival of 1988 attracted much attention and it was, in 1990, awarded the European City Of Culture. Ever since then the financial revival has helped create certainly one of the country’s most multi-ethnic cities with a huge variety of world class tourist attractions. Whereas these excellent tourist attractions are actually well worth a visit there are a lot of other older points of interest which are sometimes ignored and one in all these is the great Glasgow Necropolis.
About The Glasgow Necropolis
Like Père Lachaise Cemetery, in Paris, Glasgow Necropolis is rather more than a plain graveyard. This appealing Victorian burial site has a few of the finest sculptures in Glasgow. Sited east of the city’s St. Mungo’s Cathedral the burial site is rather straightforward to locate especially as it is located on one of the few hills within the city.
During the nineteenth century Glasgow was probably the most commercially succeessful ports on this planet and in a similar fashion to the city of Liverpool in neighbouring England huge amounts of money were pumped into into civic projects by those who had built up incredible wealth. In Glasgow a variety of entrepreneurs, generally known as the “Tobacco Lords” held the vast majority of the wealth of the city.
In 1831 a competition was held to determine the best design for the Necropolis which was to be comparable to Père Lachaise and 16 designs were submitted for consideration. The Tobacco Lords, ever eager to display their wealth, appeared to compete with their grave memorials with more and more ornate sculptures and amazing works of art. Many of the sculptures depict something regarding the life of the person buried beneath. The most obvious monument is at the top of the hill, the massive monument to John Knox. Looking round Glasgow Necropolis you’ll discover excellent works of art including a marble statue of a seated Charles Tennant and artistic creations in the Art-nouveau fashion together with a Celtic cross created by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Other Glasgow Sights
Many of the hidden points of interest of Glasgow have connections with the well-known architect and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Glasgow is Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s birthplace and is most famous for his {furniture|furnishings} and distinctive buildings, a lot of them found in the city. While a lot of his plans had been for private houses there have been just a few public buildings designed by him including his most masterpiece the Glasgow School of Art.
Although many art critics would be in agreement that the Willow Tea Rooms contain essentially the most well-known of his artworks visiting just the Tea Rooms and the Glasgow School of Art is nowhere near enough to achieve an expansive understanding of the incredible extent of his talent.
Other Charles Rennie Mackintosh associated places to visit include the most important “House for an Art Lover” in Glasgow’s south side, The Mackintosh Church at Queens Cross, Scotland Street School Museum, The Lighthouse, Martyrs’ Public School, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and Hill House in Helensburgh.
I really do hope that you will soon be planning enjoying a vacation in this amazing city and you will be pleased to find that there are a number excellent Glasgow hotels and guest houses offering reasonably inexspensive accommodation. Even though hotels in Glasgow city centre are somewhat expensive those guest houses found just a little distance away can be rather inexpensive.
