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Hampden Park is the national football stadium of Scotland. It now has a 51,866-capacity but the European record attendance for an international football match took place here, with 149,415 attending a Scotland v England match in 1937. And another record crowd of over 127,000 for a European Cup final watched Real Madrid of Spain win 7-3 against Eintracht Frankfurt of West Germany.  The postponed 2020 UEFA European Football Championship or UEFA Euro 2020 are taking place this year (2021), all being well, at Hampden on the south side of Glasgow: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56656500 Hampden in 2014 for the Commonwealth Games Photo: J.Wilson In club football, Glasgow teams like Celtic, Rangers and Partick Thistle have all played in European football and have featured a good number of players from across Europe. Partick Thistle Link In Women's football there have been some fabulous international links including Scottish players who have played in Italy, the most famous probably ...

The University was founded in 1451, so is Scotland's second oldest after St Andrews. A Papal Bull established this - signed by Pope Nicholas  https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/papal-bull/  so this is a link with Rome, Italy! The interior doors of the Hunterian Museum (University of Glasgow) are carved by the famous sculptor and artist Eduardo Paolozzi - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Paolozzi   and  https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/collections/collectionsummaries/art/sculpture/ Entrance to the Hunterian Museum is in the image below ...   Photos : J. Wilson The University of Glasgow is Part of CIVIS European University ! https://civis.eu/sv/nyheter/the-civis-european-university-welcomes-the-university-of-glasgow-as-associate-partner Photos : J.Wilson Interesting history of Scotland's ancient Universities and links to Europe -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_universities_in_Scotland   From the above reference, a few snippets are ...

Adjacent to St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral, on Clyde Street. The centrepiece is a memorial to the Arandora Star tragegy from WW2 when the liner, the Arandora Star, which was sunk while carrying mainly Scots-Italian civilians who had been rounded up from their homes, shops and cafes as “enemy aliens” in 1940.   http://www.italianscotland.com/index.php/cloister-garden Photo: J.Wilson There is a Panel to commemorate the Arandora Star tragedy on the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry:  http://www.scottishdiasporatapestry.org/barga-panel4 Map Reference: Eurowalk 2 : Along the Clyde

On the corner of Union Street and Gordon Street in the town centre of Glasgow, is this magnificent building modelled on the Ca D'Oro building in Venice. It is now Category A listed.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca_d%27Oro_Building Image Attributes: Thomas Nugent / The Ca D'oro Building https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/The_Ca_D%27oro_Building_-_geograph.org.uk_-_548181.jpg More information: https://www.theglasgowstory.com/image/?inum=TGSA05148 Map Reference: Eurowalk 6: Around the Town Centre

The Glasgow Botanic Gardens have been on this current site, adjacent to the River Kelvin, since  1839 when they moved from a site west of Sauchiehall Street. They opened in 1842.  The Kibble Palace glasshouse (see photograph below) was originally a private conservatory located at Coulport on Loch Long. It was moved to its present site in 1873 and was first used as a concert hall and meeting place, hosting celebrated speakers such as Gladstone and Disraeli.  Photos by J.Wilson (Glasow Loves EU) The Kibble Palace and the magnolia tree in the foreground was bred in Paris ! The statues in Kibble Palace include ones by the Italian Antonio Rossetti: http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=rossetti_a# the Italian sculptor Scipio Tadolini whose sculpture "Eve" can be seen:  http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=tadolini_s# .  Also "Ruth" by Giovanni Ciniselli  http://www.glasgowsculpture.com/pg_biography.php?sub=ciniselli_g# Glasgo...

This war memorial is the work of Sculptor Ernest George Gillick ( 1874 – 1951)   and architect, John James Burnet and was erected in 1924. Photo: J Wilson Ernest Gillick, the sculptor was born in Bradford, the son of a local tailor and, aged 11, he left the city and went to Nottingham, where he was apprenticed to a lace designer. He then attended Nottingham School of Art, where he studied under the sculptor, Oliver Shepphard.  At Nottingham he won a scholarship that enabled him to study in London at the Royal College of Art, where he was tutored by the French sculptor, Edouard Lanteri, who helped Ernest obtain a traveling scholarship in 1902 to Italy and Paris. Europe where he gained inspiration for future work. Ernest’s work in the 1930s included sculptures on the memorial to The Missing, at the Vis-en-Artois war cemetery, France. https://www.notjusthockney.info/gillick-ernest-george/ John James Burnet is also mentioned on our tours regardi...

Photos : J Wilson At 97 Buchanan Street.  This tea room was one of a number of buildings in Glasgow that were designed by Glasgow's famous architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The building also features work by Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh.   Upon the death of architect Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson in 1875, a travelling scholarship was founded in his name and awarded every three years for the study of ancient classical architecture. In 1890, Charles Rennie Mackintosh was awarded this scholarship and embarked on a sketching tour to Italy. Other Mackintosh buildings to visit in the City In the town centre there is Mackintosh at the Willow on Sauchiehall Street, The Lighthouse building off Buchanan Street and the site of Glasgow School of Art but sadly it has currently burned down in a recent fire, but the location may be of interest nonetheless. and in the West End there is the Mackintosh House. On Maryhill Road there is the Mackintosh Church And in Bellahouston Park in the ...

On Buchanan Street, this interesting building was designed by architect John James Burnet, who had studied in Paris for two years and also made a study tour of Italy to study Baroque architecture. You will still see that is the carving "Atheneum" can be seen above the entrance. This was a purpose-built drama school!  If you visit the interior that is now used as a bar/restaurant you can see hints of the original purpose in the architecture. The theatre school itself now exists as the "New Athenaeum" in the Royal Conservatoire  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Burnet   (lots of interior photos at http://www.scottishcinemas.org.uk/glasgow/oldath.html ) - see also Athenaeum theatre in Nelson Mandela Square ... they studied English French German and Italian http://www.arthurlloyd.co.uk/Glasgow/AthenaeumGlasgow.htm Image : J.Wilson Map Reference:  Eurowalk 6: Around the Town Centre