About the neighborhood
Glasgow's most diverse and creative half
The Southside of Glasgow — everything south of the River Clyde — is the most diverse, most underrated and increasingly the most exciting part of the city. It is a sprawl of distinctive neighborhoods: Pollokshields with its red-sandstone tenements and Glasgow's largest South Asian community; Strathbungo with its Greek Thomson terraces; Govanhill, a multicultural working-class district that has produced more writers, musicians and politicians per capita than anywhere in Scotland; and Shawlands, the foodie hub where Glasgow's most ambitious new restaurants now open. The Burrell Collection — one of the great private art collections of the 20th century, housed in a starkly modernist building inside Pollok Country Park — recently reopened after a £68 million refurbishment. The Southside has none of the West End's polish, but it has more energy, more invention, and the best curry in Scotland. It is where Glasgow is going next.
Encyclopedic content adapted from the Wikipedia article on Southside, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
