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Riverside paths and painted walls.

Glasgow is a great city on foot. Follow the Clyde Walkway out of the city centre and along the river, all the way to New Lanark if you have the legs. Or stay in town and follow the mural trail, a walk round giant paintings on gable ends and back lanes, from a girl with a magnifying glass to St Mungo himself. Both are free, and both show the city at its best.

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We've just added Eaglesham to the website.

A planned village begun in 1769, its two rows of houses facing each other across the Orry, a long common green with a burn running down it.

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We've just added Greenbank Garden to the website.

A National Trust for Scotland garden in Clarkston, around a Georgian house of the 1760s, with a walled garden of more than 3,600 named plants and woodland walks.

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We've just added Rouken Glen Park to the website.

A park of 143 acres on the edge of Giffnock, south of Glasgow, with a waterfall in a wooded glen, a boating pond and a walled garden, voted the UK's Best Park in 2016.

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Clyde Walkway.

A 65-kilometre riverside path from the centre of Glasgow to New Lanark, past the Finnieston Crane, the Armadillo and the Clyde's new bridges.

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Lunch near Glasgow Mural Trail.

The three closest tables: Ichiban, Maki & Ramen and Loop & Scoop.

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The Kibble Palace was first built at a house on Loch Long, and moved to Glasgow's Botanic Gardens in 1873.

Glasgow Botanic Gardens are in the West End of the city, and anyone can walk in. The great glasshouse, the Kibble Palace, was built for John Kibble's house at Coulport on Loch Long and was put up here in 1873. It reopened in 2006 after restoration, and inside is a collection of tree ferns from New Zealand and Australia.

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From the magazine2 hours agoThe printed copy of Issue 02Issue 02Spring / Summer 2021

Inside Govan Old Parish Church, on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow, is a carved stone sarcophagus said to be the only one of its kind from pre-Norman northern Britain.

It is the centrepiece of the Govan Stones, a collection of 31 medieval recumbent gravestones, made to lie flat, five hogback stones and the sarcophagus itself, all rescued from the church grounds in 1926. Hogbacks are heavy ridged stones shaped like the roofs of houses. The stones are believed to date from the 9th to 11th centuries, when Govan was a great church of the Kingdom of Strathclyde. The sarcophagus is carved from solid stone and covered in intricate carvings, so take your time as you walk round and look closely.

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