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88  BRIT AIN AND IRELAND

Scotland highlights here include dinosaur
skeletons, Egyptian artifacts
Scotland’s landscape is breathtaking, with sparkling lochs, and a real spit fire suspended
awesome mountains, and windswept isles. The ruggedness in the main hall.
of its climate and natural environment has helped to forge The Hunterian Art Gallery
a tough, self-reliant nation, whose history has been houses Scotland’s largest print
collection and paintings by major
characterized by resistance to English domination. Castles, European artists from the 16th
many in ruins, are found all over the country – a legacy of century to the present. A display
its turbulent past. Culturally, Edinburgh has always been of works by Glasgow’s most cele-
the country’s chief attraction, but the rival city of Glasgow brated designer, Charles Rennie
has much to offer too, with many great free attractions. Mackintosh (1868–1928), is supp-
lemented by a reconstru ction of
No. 6 Florentine Terrace, where
modern Glasgow, renowned for he lived from 1906 to 1914.
its free galleries and museums. South of the river, Pollok
The deprived East End stands Country Park is the site of the
side by side with the restored Burrell Collection, star of
18th-century Merchant City Glasgow’s renaissance.
and Victorian George Square. Highlights include examples
Glasgow’s cathedral was one of 15th-century stained glass
of the few to escape destruction and tapestries, a bronze bull’s
during the Scottish Reformation, head (7th century BC) from
and is a rare example of an Turkey, Matthijs Maris’ The Sisters
almost complete 13th-century (1875), and a self-portrait by
church. The crypt holds the tomb Rembrandt (1632). On the same
of St. Mungo. In the cathedral site, Pollok House is an attractive
precinct, the St. Mungo Museum Georgian building. It holds one
of Religious Life and Art is the of Britain’s best collections of
first of its kind in the world, 16th- to 19th-century Spanish
The imposing City Chambers in George illustrating religious paintings.
Square, Glasgow themes with a Other sights
superb range worth visiting are
f Edinburgh of artifacts. the Tenement
It is in the more House, a modest
See pp90–94.
affluent West End, apartment in a
where merchants tenement block
g Glasgow used to retreat from preserved from
industrial Clyde side, Stained glass by Charles Rennie Edwardian times,
* 593,000. k £ @ n 10
Sauchiehall St (0845-859 1006). that Glasgow’s most Mackintosh and Provand’s
( Sat, Sun. _ Jazz Festival (Jun). impo rtant galleries Lordship (1471),
∑ peoplemakeglasgow.com and museums can be found. The the city’s oldest-surviving house.
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and The House for an Art Lov er is a
Glasgow’s era of great prosperity Museum, housed in a striking showcase for the work of
was the industrial 19th century. red sandstone building dating Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Coal seams in Lanarkshire fueled from 1901, is home to a splendid For a social history of the city
the city’s cotton mills and collection of art, with works by from the 12th to the 20th
ironworks, belying its Celtic Botticelli, Giorgione, Rembrandt, century, visit the People’s
name, Glas cu, meaning “dear Degas, Millet, and Monet, while Palace, a cultural mus eum
green place.” Relics of this the Scottish Gallery contains the located in the city’s East End.
manufacturing past contrast famous Massacre of Glencoe by
starkly with the glossy image of James Hamilton (1853–94). Other E Kelvingrove Art Gallery and
Museum
Argyle St, Kelvingrove. Tel 0141-276
9599. Open daily. Closed Jan 1–2,
Dec 25–26. 8 7
E Hunterian Art Gallery
82 Hillhead St. Tel 0141-330 4221.
Open Tue–Sun. Closed Dec 24–Jan 5
& public hols. 7 restricted.
E Burrell Collection
Pollok Country Park. Tel 0141-287
2550. Open daily. Closed Jan 1–2,
The Burrell Collection in Pollok Country Park on Glasgow’s outskirts Dec 25–26 & 31. 8 7 - =
For hotels and restaurants see pp104–6 and pp107–9

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