One of the days we spent in Glasgow we took the Glasgow hop-on, hop-off bus (blog coming soon), and we hopped off at the Kelvingrove Park for a stroll through the park and the campus of the adjacent University of Glasgow. We thought it curious that the university ranked so highly on TripAdvisor as a Glasgow city attraction, so had to see why. If you’re a fan of architecture, it’s worth a half-hour detour; apparently there are more architecture fans out there than we realized.
The University of Glasgow, founded in 1451, is one of the oldest universities in Europe and the 4th oldest in the English-speaking world. Today it is regarded as one of the top universities in the world and has schools of law, medicine, veterinary medicine, and dentistry. A few notable graduates include Adam Smith (the “Wealth of Nations”), Lord Kelvin (physicist and namesake of the Kelvin temperature scale), and some seven Nobel laureates.
