Glasgow: art born from industry

The Glasgow School of Art, a masterpiece by architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, remains one of the most influential Art Nouveau buildings in Europe despite two serious fires in recent years.

Just steps away, the Glasgow Cathedral, among the few Scottish cathedrals that survived intact the Protestant Reformation, dominates the medieval historic center.

Continuing on, one visits the Kelvingrove Art Gallery, a free museum with collections ranging from seventeenth-century Dutch art to an actual Spitfire aircraft suspended from the ceiling.

Toward evening, the Merchant City district, a former eighteenth-century commercial area, animates restaurants and venues in restored neoclassical buildings.

The Glasgow School of Art was struck by two devastating fires in 2014 and 2018, the latter during repairs from the first: the reconstruction of Mackintosh's building remains an ongoing project.

The Cathedral cemetery, the Necropolis, spreads over a hill overlooking with over three thousand Victorian tombs, often compared to Paris' Père Lachaise on a smaller scale.