We Spent 1 Day In Glasgow & It Totally Shocked Us 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

☺️ Welcome to Glasgow, Scotland where we invite you to join us for our first time exploring the city and it is not what we were expecting!

We start our day in Glasgow city centre where we find a great cafe for breakfast and wander the famous Buchanan Street before jumping on Glasgow's space age subway system.

We visit some of the city's most famous attractions like the Hunterian Museum, Botanic Garden, Cathedral and more as well as sampling some delicious Scottish food, admiring some incredible street art and exploring the eerie Glasgow Necropolis.

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⭐️VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS⭐️
00:00 Welcome to Glasgow, Scotland
00:30 Social Bite
00:58 Buchanan Street
01:59 Glasgow Subway
04:20 Kelvingrove Park
05:01 Hunterian Museum - University of Glasgow
07:45 Glasgow Botanic Gardens
12:06 Ashton Lane
13:12 Glasgow Cathedral
14:37 Glasgow Necropolis
16:29 Glasgow Mural Trail

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[danbull]

First time I went to Glasgow i was intimidated by how friendly everyone was compared to down south

[jps]

Thanks for being so kind about our city. Glad u enjoyed it ❤

[sueKay]

Great video! Glasgow is so underrated so it's always good to see a video that does the city justice!

[ElizabethThomson-uj]

At the age of 21, I left Glasgow in 1963 to emigrate to New Zealand. To be honest, I had never taken much notice of the fabulous architecture in Glasgow but have been for several visits home. The city looks wonderful and all so clean. I have always been proud of my birthplace, but even more so now. Many thanks for this video.

[MartinJames]

That "Cafe Nero" was built as a subway station, St. Enoch. It was in front of a major terminal railway station, also St. Enoch, but that's gone now, leaving Glasgow with only two long-distance terminii in place of the previous four, Central and Queen Street.

An even better 360॰ view is available from the top of Ruchill Park in Maryhill. You can watch Partick Thistle from up there, well about a third of the pitch, anyway.

[AuldScot]

So what where you guys expecting? You missed a trick not popping into Kelvin grove Art Gallery & Museum. Put that & transport museum on your list if you ever return.

[henrikmclarsson]

Last comment, again someone has probably said this before but the bloke with the cone on his head is Duke of Wellington. The City used to take the cone off but got fed up as it was always replaced so they left it and embraced it as a landmark in its own right. Ironically it’s probably more celebrated with the cone than without, especially now it’s situated outside GoMA! Glasgow does like to cock a snoot at Authority!

[titteryenot]

Glasgow’s underrated partly because it’s always in the beautiful shadow of its A-lister sister along the motorway, Edinburgh. Taken on its own merits, though, the city is a bit of an unsung architectural gem. All that old Victorian stuff is rather lovely.

[calloftheryan]

Dunno if this was said in the comment but a popular day out is the Glasgow subcrawl. You get an all day ticket and must complete a loop by getting off at each station and going to the nearest pub for a drink.

[tesla.coil]

Love that the underground makes it easy to visit the west end and centre of Glasgow in one day. The new trains are great, enjoyed your video!

[joebhoyy]

Love seeing our city shown in a positive light. Glasgow has extremely high levels of deprivation and poverty, the people are hard and tough but the large majority are kind, hardworking and helpful regardless. Riverside transport museum is a must on your next visit 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[lido]

I love the Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 summer. It’s the best day of the year 🤪

[johncolquhoun]

You walked right past Kelvingrove art galleries the biggest in Scotland and went to a small gallery.

[djglw]

My home city 😊
Its great to see videos like this catching the positive side of Glasgow. Well done guys. Hope you come back again

[karupe]

I know there is a big rivalry between Edimburgh and Glasgow, and i am mostly a medieval girly, but my favorite film is set in Glasgow and its such a lovely place, once you learn more about it there is no way away from its love. All of Scotland its a treasure but this city, the victorian parts, all the industrial history, its literally romantic. And the new buildings, the new begginings after what they used to call the Neds.... Its a city that woke up and chose ART. Also i adore that it exists bc of a gorhic cathedral, as a medieval obsessed dummie, reading about Saint Mungo and the river that made him build the cathedral and all about birds and bells and trees and fishes... Oh how not to fall in love. Im 25 now but in another life im pretty sure i went to university there, i just love Kelvingrove Park and the Botanics and live music... I have never even been out of the three frontiers here at home (Argentina, Brasil and Paraguay) and i probably wont have the money to visit Scotland for a long time in this economic conditions but im so glad ypu shared these videos with us!

[steviekek]

Saint Mungo was born to Saint Teneu in 518 AD, in Culross, Fife. It is believed that Teneu was Scotland’s first reported rape victim and unmarried mother. The young Teneu was sexually assaulted by the Welsh prince Owain mab Urien, resulting in her pregnancy. Upon learning of Teneu’s pregnancy, her father, King Lleuddun of Lothian, became outraged and sentenced her to death. In carrying out this sentence Teneu was thrown from Traprain Law, East Lothian. Teneu, however, survived the fall and managed to escape, sailing in a small boat to Culross in Fife. Upon arriving in Culross, the pregnant Teneu was taken to the local monastery where she was looked after by Saint Serf. In 518 Teneu gave birth to a boy, naming him Kentigern. Saint Serf decided to raise Kentigern, training him to become a priest at the monastery and giving him the nickname Mungo meaning “dear one”.

During his time at the monastery, Mungo became the favourite student of Saint Serf, often causing jealousy and resentment amongst his monastic peers. This jealousy and resentment continued to grow eventually causing Mungo to leave the monastery. After his departure, Mungo travelled to Stirling where he lived at the home of a holy man named Fergus. As time went on the pair became close friends and on his death bed, Fergus told Mungo of his dying wish. Fergus’ dying wish was that his body be placed upon a cart, which was to be pulled by two bulls, with his body being buried where the bulls stopped. Mungo carried out the dying wish of his friends and travelled with the bulls until they eventually came to a stop near a small burn. Mungo gave a name to the area, he named it Glas Ghu (Glasgow), meaning “dear green place”. It was here that Mungo would start the first Christian community in Glasgow, building his church near the Molendinar Burn, which would later become the site of Glasgow Cathedral. It was from here that Mungo would say the words “Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of his words”. This would later shorten to “Let Glasgow Flourish” becoming the motto for the city.

Mungo and Teneu would later become co-patron saints of the City of Glasgow. It is believed that St Enochs square in the city centre was the medieval site of a church built to honour Saint Teneu.

The four legends of Saint Mungo

The City of Glasgow’s coat of arms depicts an oak tree, a robin, a bell and two salmon each with a ring in its mouth. These images relate to the four legends of Saint Mungo.

“Here’s the Tree that never grew,

Here’s the Bird that never flew,

Here’s the Bell that never rang,

Here’s the Fish that never Swam.”



The Tree that never grew

During his time at the monastery in Culross, Mungo was left in charge of the holy fire which burned in the rectory, ensuring that the flame was not extinguished during the night. However, due to the increasing jealousy of the other boys, they put out the fire in the hope that Mungo would be punished. However, upon waking, Mungo noticed that the fire had gone out. Acting on this discovery, Mungo collected frozen branches from an oak tree, which were ignited as a result of Mungo’s prayers.

The Bird that never flew

The tale of the bird also comes from Mungo’s days in the monastery. At this time, Saint Serf had a pet, Robin. The pet, however, was killed by some of the boys at the monastery, who wished to place the blame on Mungo. Mungo, however, took the bird in his hand and commanded it to live, to which the Robin immediately sat up and began to sing.

The Bell that never rang

It is believed that the bell was given to Mungo by the Pope in Rome. It was said that the bell was used in services to mourn the dead. The bell quickly became a notable symbol in Glasgow. The fate of the original bell is unknown, however, a replacement which was bought by the city’s magistrates in 1641 can still be seen in the People’s Palace Museum.

The Fish that never swam

As mentioned, the salmon in the coat of arms of Glasgow, contains a ring in its mouth. The ring was a gift from Hyddderch Hael, King of Cadzow to his wife Queen Languoreth. Languoreth in turn gave the ring to one of Hydderch knights. The King was suspicious of his wife, believing her to be guilty of infidelity. The King organised a hunting party in which the knight would be present. As the knight slept the King took the ring and threw it into the River Clyde. The following day the King demanded to see the ring which he had given Languoreth, if she could not produce the ring then she would be sentenced to death. A distraught Languoreth visited Mungo and pleaded with him to help find the ring. Acting on this Mungo sent one of his monks to the River, instructing him to bring back the first fish that he caught. On the monks return, Mungo removed the ring from inside the mouth of the salmon.

[davidbagan]

Always look up when in Glasgow the architecture is stunning.

[mcgarvey]

Arrived to Glasgow Friday just gone for TRNSMT festival all the way from Stockport, fantastic city, people are top notch.Gutted i'm going home tommorow, but will deffo visit again 🙌

[hectorbrown]

I was born in Glasgow many years ago, and now I have lived in France for the last fifty years, thank you for showing Glasgow in such a beautiful and interesting way . Hello to all my fellow Glaswegians et bonjour à vous deux de la Charente Maritime.

[MartyMcK]

Looking at the architecture you can see why Warner Bros use Glasgow to double for Gotham City in so many movies.