Glasgow: from another travel perspective

‘People make Glasgow’: a significant slogan that best represents the true identity of this ‘city of all’, ‘created by its own people’, but a tourist destination for the few.

To choose Glasgow you need to prefer it and understand it. Certainly not a glamorous ‘Sun&Beach’ city, a destination for mass tourism. At first impression it may appear inhospitable, gloomy and uninteresting and, most likely, wait with its rainy climate as well as its limited outdoor activities, even in summer!

In reality, Glasgow, proclaimed ‘Capital of Culture’ in 1990, offers more and more entertainment opportunities also as the ‘Unesco City of Music’, with more than 100 internationally recognized cultural and artistic organisations,

Also, great success story of how this industrial city transformed into the ‘Design Capital’ of Scotland.

Urban and industrial design: the process of urban and material regeneration involves Glasgow in a continuous transformation, which places at the center of its interest the modification of the industrial aspect of this city in a more attractive location, also for urban tourism.

Even now, since the beginning of the 20th century, Glasgow has seen its buildings and its people transformed, improving the poor and unhealthy living conditions and the most precarious homes.

It is here that you find the juxtaposition between what is new and what is old, the ancient and the modern: you can visit museums but also shopping centers and the latest fashion shops.

Not only that, there is no shortage of Scottish traditions: for example, a ‘style tea’ can only be found in Glasgow! While admiring the stained glass windows characteristic of this city, you can sip a typical local tea in one of the art deco and nouveau buildings of the famous Glasgow avant-garde architect and designer, Charles Rennie Mackintosh.