Accommodation in Glasgow is your guide to hotels in Glasgow and other accommodation including B&Bs and Guest Houses. |
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Welcome to Accommodation in Glasgow
Looking for accommodation in Glasgow? We offer an extensive hotel guide which provides all the information you require about Glasgow and its Hotels. This guide includes : Hotels near local attractions such as Glasgow Cathedral or if you are looking for a Glasgow Accommodation in the centre. Either way we will help to make the most of your stay in your chosen Glasgow Hotel, Guest House or B&B.
Glasgow (Glaschu in Gaelic; or Glesca/Glesga in Scots) is the largest city in Scotland. The City of Glasgow is the most populous unitary authority area. It is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands. People from Glasgow are known as Glaswegians; Glaswegian is also the name of the local dialect popularly referred to as the "Glasgow Patter".
Glasgow's importance as an urban centre derived ultimately from the medieval Bishopric of Glasgow and the later establishment of the University of Glasgow, which contributed to the Scottish Enlightenment. From the 18th century the city had become a hub of transatlantic trade with the Americas. With the Industrial Revolution, the city and surrounding region grew to become one of the world's pre-eminent centres of heavy engineering and shipbuilding, constructing many revolutionary and famous vessels. Glasgow was known as the "Second City of the British Empire" in the Victorian era. Today Glasgow is Scotland's largest and most economically important commerce and retail centre. It is one of Europe's top 16 financial centres and home to many of the country's leading businesses. It is the UK's third most popular destination for overseas visitors.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Glasgow grew to a population of over one million, and was the third city in Europe to exceed this number of inhabitants, after London and Paris. In the 1960s large-scale relocation to new towns in the outskirts of the city, followed by successive boundary changes, have reduced the current population of the City of Glasgow to 578,790 although 1,749,154 live in the urban areas surrounding the city, based on the 2001 census. Around 2,300,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow conurbation, defined as the City of Glasgow and the surrounding region.
