Private Glasgow Dark Side Walking Tour
- 1h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
This is a journey through the city’s darker streets, stranger stories and more unsettling past. A city well-known for its turbulent past, Glasgow has a lot of secrets. Built by industry, shaped by its working class, and run by gangs operating out of ice-cream vans. With your own local guide, uncover the murders, criminals, prisons, ghosts, gangs and grim tales that have shaped Glasgow over the centuries. Walk through the historic streets around Glasgow Cathedral, the old prison quarter and the Clyde, hearing stories of notorious inmates, unsolved murders, grave robbing, the Gorbals Vampire and Glasgow’s connections to the slave trade. And this isn’t just history… some of these stories are surprisingly recent.
Inclusions
What's included
- Dedicated local, private guide!
Itinerary
Learn the dark past of Glasgow Cathedral
Discover the haunted history of The Necropolis and those laid to rest here
Learn about the ghosts who haunt Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Discover Glasgow's tenements on High Street, and the people who inhabited them
Learn about Glasgow's slave trade connections, and how the city has taken steps to eradicate this dark past
Here the dark history of the Blackfriars area will be revealed
Learn about Glasgow's grisly prison, The Tolbooth and the punishments suffered here
Learn about the Trongate's dark past
Finish in Glasgow Green, at the McLennan Arch for a spine-chilling finish
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Ratings come from 8 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet outside the main entrance to The Cathedral
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Walking Tours in Glasgow
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Glasgow
- Its from-price is 24% below the median of the 395 experiences we list in Glasgow.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 140 of 395.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Glasgow
Glasgow is Scotland's largest city, a Victorian port on the Clyde with galleries, live music and red-sandstone terraces, and Loch Lomond close by.
Glasgow grew on the River Clyde through shipbuilding, tobacco and trade, and its Victorian wealth shows in the red sandstone of its terraces, museums and merchant halls. The medieval cathedral, which survived the Reformation intact, stands beside the Necropolis, a hill of Victorian tombs. The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, a red-stone palace, holds Salvador Dalí's Christ of St John of the Cross and a Spitfire hanging in its hall.
Top-ranked sights in Glasgow: Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park, Glasgow Cathedral, George Square.
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