Summerlee Industrial Museum
(7 Miles)*
The Heritage Park's 22 acres are based around the site of the 19th Century Summerlee Ironworks, a fore-runner in the use of what was at the time the ground-breaking hot blast iron smelting process that led Coatbridge to become known as the Iron Burgh.
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Callendar House
(9 Miles)*
Callendar House encapsulates 600 years of Scotland's history from medieval times to the twentieth century. Great historical figures like Mary Queen of Scots, Cromwell and Bonnie Prince Charlie have visited the house.
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Bannockburn
(9 Miles)*
From this battlefield the Scots 'sent them homeward to think again', when Edward II's English army was soundly defeated by King Robert the Bruce.
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Smith Art Gallery & Museum
(11 Miles)*
Nestling beneath Stirling Castle, in the King's Park, the ancient hunting grounds of the Stuart monarchs, and now a suburb of opulent Victorian mansions, is the Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
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Argyll's Lodging
(11 Miles)*
Argyll's Lodging is a superb mansion built around an earlier core in about 1630 and further extended by the Earl of Argyll in the 1670s.
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Stirling Castle
(11 Miles)*
Stirling has been described as a "huge brooch, clasping Highlands and Lowlands together". Many great events from Scotland's past are associated with Stirling Castle.
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Bothwell Castle
(11 Miles)*
Bothwell Castle is the largest and finest 13th century stone castle in Scotland, much fought over during the Wars of Independence.
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Glasgow Cathedral
(11 Miles)*
Glasgow Cathedral is the only Scottish mainland medieval cathedral to have survived the Reformation complete (apart from its western towers).
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St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art
(11 Miles)*
The award-winning St Mungo Museum explores the importance of religion in people's lives and art across the world and across time. It aims to promote understanding and respect between people of different faiths and of none.
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Martyrs School
(11 Miles)*
Martyrs' School is one of the earliest buildings by Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928).
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Provands Lordship
(11 Miles)*
Step back in time and discover a piece of Glasgow's history with a visit to the only medieval house in Glasgow.
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Motherwell Heritage Centre
(12 Miles)*
The main feature of the centre is the multi-media 'Technopolis' facility This takes the visitor from the arrival of the Romans in the area, through the rise and fall of heavy industry to the present day regeneration of the district.
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Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens
(12 Miles)*
The Peoples Palace and Winter Gardens were built in 1898 on the historic Glasgow Green for the benefit of the industrial working people of the East End.
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Hutchesons' Hall
(12 Miles)*
The present building was designed and built in 1802-5 by David Hamilton and major reconstruction work by John Baird in 1876 resulted in today's impressive interior, with its elegant hall and staircase.
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The Lighthouse
(12 Miles)*
The Lighthouse, Scotland's first, dedicated, national centre for architecture and design, was opened by HM Queen Elizabeth in 1999, a renamed, £13 million conversion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1895 Glasgow Herald newspaper office.
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