The City of and The Clyde Valley Itinerary - 3 Days

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Kelvin Hall The A unique partnership between Glasgow Life, the University of The famous Burrell Collection, one of the greatest art collections Glasgow and the National Library of has resulted in this ever amassed by one person and consisting of more than 8,000 historic building being transformed into an exciting new centre of objects, will reopen in Spring 2021. Housed in a new home in cultural excellence. Your clients can visit Kelvin Hall for free and see Glasgow’s Country Park, the Burrell’s renaissance will see the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive or take a the creation of an energy efficient, modern museum that will tour of the Glasgow Museums’ and the Hunterian’s store, alongside enable your clients to enjoy and better connect with the collection. enjoy a state-of-the art Glasgow Club health and fitness centre. The displays range from work by major artists including Rodin, Degas and Cézanne. 1445 Argyle Street Glasgow, G3 8AW www.kelvinhall.org.uk 2060 Road Link to Trade Website Glasgow. G43 1AT www.glasgowlife.org.uk Link to Trade Website Distance between Kelvin Hall and Clydeside Distillery is 1.5 miles/2.4km Distance between The Burrell Collection and The Clydeside Distillery is 5 miles/8km The Clydeside Distillery is a Single Malt Scotch Whisky distillery, visitor experience, café, and specialist whisky shop in the heart of Glasgow. At Glasgow’s first dedicated Single Malt Scotch Whisky Distillery for over 100 years, your clients can choose a variety of tours, including whisky and chocolate paring. Your clients can also enjoy a visit to the shop and can even purchase a personalised, bespoke bottle of whisky, as well as a premium selection of whiskies. Private venue hire available. 100 Stobcross Road Glasgow, G3 8QQ www.theclydeside.com Link to Trade Website

Distance between Clydeside Distillery and The Burrell Collection is 5.9 miles/9.4km Glasgow Music City Tours Glasgow’s Music City tours is an entertaining guided walk around the music hot spots of the city centre. Take your clients on a walk with Glasgow Music City Tours and explore their dive bars, flagship concert halls and the ghosts of long-gone gig venues. From the Royal Concert Hall to King Tut’s, the birthplace of Oasis, the Music Mile tour is a whistle-stop guide around Glasgow city centre, an area teeming with music venues past and present. Glasgow Scotland glasgowmusiccitytours.com Link to Trade Website

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House for an Art Lover 02 House for an Art Lover was designed by the internationally renowned architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is situated Walking tours in... Scotland in . The exterior of the House for an Art Lover Your clients can discover a has been realised in materials and craftsmanship as closely as different side to Glasgow on this possible to Mackintosh’s 1901 designs. Inside, your clients can visit street art and modern culture the entire layout of rooms, while he and his wife provided detailed tour. On this 2 hour-walk there’s interior designs for the double-height Entrance Hall, Dining Room, no cathedrals, grand buildings Oval Room and Music Room. or monuments, this is the Bellahouston Park real Glasgow. Your clients will meander down alleys and under 10 Dumbreck Road bridges to uncover some of the Glasgow, G41 5BW city’s most beautiful pieces of www.houseforanartlover.co.uk art that are taking over the walls Link to Trade Website by storm. From world-renowned heroes to local artists you’ll hear the stories and inspiration behind Distance between House of an Art Lover and Pollock House is each piece whilst learning about the scene in . Walking 1.8 miles/3km tours in... Scotland also offer tours in Inverness, St. Andrews and Stirling. Glasgow, G2 1AL www.walkingtoursin.com Link to Trade Website

People’s Palace People’s Palace is set in historic and tells the story of Glasgow and its people from 1750 to the present day. The city’s social history can be explored through a wealth of historic artefacts, paintings, prints and photographs, film and interactive computer displays. Your clients can follow the exhibits which give a This elegant stately home is one of the National Trust for wonderful insight into how Glaswegians lived, worked and played Scotland’s grandest properties and it is set in the scenic in years gone by. Outside the Winter Gardens, the restored Doulton surroundings of Pollok Country Park on the outskirts of Glasgow. Fountain stands pride of place on Glasgow Green. Your clients can explore luxurious rooms, discover the sumptuous Glasgow Green array of artefacts, view an extraordinary art collection and explore Glasgow, G40 1AT the vast servants’ quarters and scenic surroundings. Your clients can also enjoy a stroll through Pollok Country Park and sample the www.glasgowlife.org.uk delicious delights in the Edwardian Kitchen café. Link to Trade Website Pollok Country Park Glasgow, G43 1AT Distance between People’s Palace and House for an Art Lover is www.nts.org.uk 3.9 miles/6.2km Link to Trade Website

Distance Pollok House and New Mill is 30 miles/48km

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03 Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre The fascinating visitor centre at Whitelee, the UK’s largest onshore windfarm, just 20 minutes outside Glasgow, offers exhibits about New Lanark Mill renewable energy and the chance to see the turbines at work. Its New Lanark World Heritage Site is a unique 18th century Mill 215 turbines are capable of generating up to 539 megawatts of Village sitting alongside the . Founded in 1785 with a electricity on a windy day. Your clients can also find 130 kilometres focus on the welfare of mill workers, New Lanark became a model of trails to explore by foot, cycle, horse, or bus. Your clients can for industrial communities, until the last mill closed in the 1960s. enjoy panoramic views of the windfarm or even sit at the picnic A subsequent restoration programme resulted in New Lanark benches on the viewing deck if the sun is shining. becoming a World Heritage Site in 2001. At the visitor centre, your clients can learn the story of the mill, while nearby is the Falls of Moor Road Clyde wildlife reserve with its birds of prey and waterfalls. Eaglesham Glasgow, G76 0QQ Mill One www.whiteleewindfarm.co.uk New Lanark Mills Link to Trade Website Lanark, ML11 9DB www.newlanark.org Link to Trade Website Distance between Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre and The Dumbarton Castle is 32.4 miles/52.1km

Distance between New Lanark and National Museum of Rural Life is 24.4 miles/39.2km

National Museum of Rural Life Dumbarton Castle Explore life in the countryside at this five-star museum, historic Dumbarton Castle is located in the ancient capital of Scotland and farmhouse and working farm. In the museum, learn about the is spectacularly sited on a volcanic rock overlooking the River Clyde. land, people and ways of working that have shaped Scotland’s Your clients will conquer more than 500 steps to stand atop one of rural history, and discover Scotland’s largest collection of tractors Scotland’s greatest strongholds. The iconic Rock of the Clyde has and other farming machinery. Your clients can take a short walk heritage as breath taking as its views over the Clyde, Loch Lomond or tractor-trailer ride from the museum through the working farm. and Argyll. Your clients can admire great examples of 18th century Your clients can also meet the animals, and then visit the Georgian Georgian military architecture and stunning views from the Tower farmhouse where ’s Reid family lived for ten generations. Crag. Philipshill Road Castle Road , G76 9HR Dumbarton www.nms.ac.uk Dunbartonshire, G82 1JJ Link to Trade Website www.historicenvironment.scot Link to Trade Website

Distance between National Museum of Rural Life and Whitelee Windfarm Visitor Centre is 7.5 miles/12km

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Groups Groups All groups Free Languages Seasonal Opening Open all year Accessible Green Tourism Coach 8—12 up to 24 all sizes independent spoken (as noted) access Business parking people people travellers Winter by sheme available appointment Food and drink suggestions Accommodation suggestions Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor The Pipers’ Tryst 4-star Hotel adjacent to the Botanic Gardens with Connected to The National Piping Centre, guests 97 rooms and 5 meeting rooms from boardrooms can experience delicious Scottish fayre with a to ornated ballrooms. contemporary twist, with traditional favourites such as Haggis, Neeps & Tatties. Grand Central Hotel 4-star Hotel adjoining Central Station with Windows Restaurant 186 bedrooms. Perfectly suited for meetings, Located on the 7th floor of the Carlton George Hotel, conferences, events and weddings, the hotel has Windows is the only rooftop restaurant in Glasgow. 21 flexible event spaces. Our head chef and his team create a variety of delicious dishes using fine, locally sourced ingredients. Crowne Plaza Hotel 4-star Hotel with 283 bedrooms, 15 meeting The Willow Tea Rooms rooms and an on-site fitness centre with a spa Modelled on Kate Cranston’s Ingram Street Tea Rooms. They and indoor pool. offer varied services from breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea, cakes & scones, tea or coffee. Fraser Suites Glasgow 4-star self-serviced apartments with 99 Individual Mharsanta Restaurant apartments in the Merchant city, Glasgow’s cultural Situated in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City, Mharsanta quarter. offers an excellent selection of new and traditional Scottish themed dishes. Radisson Blu 4-star hotel with 14 rooms to accommodate the WEST Brewery disabled visitor and 247 bedrooms. Adjacent to WEST’s state of the art brewery resides within the winding house train and bus links, the hotel has a meeting and of the magnificent Templeton Building overlooking Glasgow events floor with 16 air-conditioned rooms. Green and produces award-winning, German-style lagers and wheat beers. Hotel du Vin 5-star Hotel set in a tree-lined Victorian terrace in the Van Winkle fashionable West End. The hotel has 49 bedrooms and Located opposite the iconic Barrowlands, Van Winkle is an suites, 2 meeting rooms with a private garden and an American restaurant which is serving up all manner of comfort exclusive use of the Townhouse No.5. food, from pizza and wings through to burgers. Ibis Glasgow City Centre Oran Mor 3-star Hotel with 141 bedrooms with connecting rooms Formerly Kelvinside Parish Church, Oran Mor, Gaelic for great available and a restaurant/bar open 24/7. Excellent melody of life or big song, is a thriving arts & entertainment location for shopping with the Buchanan Galleries within venue in the heart of Glasgow’s West End. 10 minutes’ walk.

Red Bus Bistro Novotel Glasgow Centre Climb aboard our vintage 1966 Routemaster bus for a selection 4-star hotel with 139 bedrooms, 8 meeting rooms and of onboard dining experiences: from a traditional afternoon tea leisure facilities including sauna, gym and steam room. A with a glass of Prosecco or a delicious signature gin cocktail modern contemporary hotel ideally located in the heart of served in traditional tea pots. the city. The Glasgow Food & Drink Tour Come join them on an award-winning food walking tour and Yotel Glasgow explore the thriving food scene of Glasgow’s leafy west end. With 3-star hotel with 267 bedrooms, a rooftop Komyuniti their tours your clients will be tasting an eclectic mix of quality and event space with a 4-lane bowling alley. Yotel is just Scottish food and drink.Eat Walk Glasgow opposite Glasgow’s Central Station.

Eat Walk Glasgow DoubleTree by Hilton Glasgow Central Eat walk Glasgow offer food walking tours that visit five city 4-star hotel with 300 elegant bedrooms and suites, 11 centre venues tasting locally sourced Scottish food and drink. flexible function rooms and a leisure club with indoor Your local guide will talk about the rich history of the City of pool, steam room, sauna, fitness centre. Glasgow as you walk between stops.

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