Scotland Correspondent Issue 43

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Travel - Six of the best of Glasgow’s hidden gems

Photo by Finlay McWalter CC BY-SA 3.0 Pollok Park bridge

Six of the best of Glasgow’s hidden gems by Tracey Macintosh

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lasgow is a vibrant, multi-cultural city with an impressive range of museums and art galleries. Each has a story to tell of how this small rural settlement on the River Clyde grew to become an industrial powerhouse for the world as well as Europe’s

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City of Culture in 1990, City of Architecture and Design in 1999 and the site of the 2014 Commonwealth Games. As Scotland’s largest metropolis, with a population of just under 1.7 million inhabitants, Glasgow offers a great choice of restaurants, bars, shopping and must-see tourist spots. However,


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