Millennium Hotel Glasgow

Perfectly sited at the very centre of the city’s cultural and retail activities, Millennium Hotel Glasgow is a fine modern hotel ideal for both business and leisure guests. This elegant Glasgow hotel offers stylish specious guest rooms and suites, state-of-the-art meeting and event facilities, excellent dining options and personalized service.

About Glasgow, Scotland

The bold and exciting city of Glasgow has a history that stretches far into the annals of history, with canoes unearthed on the banks of the River Clyde dating back to the Stone Age and providing a glimpse of early fishing communities. Glasgow was established in earnest in the Middle Ages, with a population of around 1,500 by the late 12th century.

Over hundreds of years Glasgow has continued to flourish, with one of the most significant periods of development – arguably the one that provides most enjoyment for modern visitors – coming as a result of the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Glasgow was Mackintosh's home city and bears his artistic legacy, in its galleries and museums but also in the aesthetic appeal of its public buildings and private houses.

Together with his wife Margaret Macdonald, her sister Frances and designer Herbert McNair, Mackintosh is credited for establishing the now instantly recognisable and much-loved 'Glasgow style'. The architect is also acknowledged as one of the principal founders of the European Art Nouveau movement.

Visitors to the Millennium Hotel in Glasgow interested in seeing the work of Mackintosh for themselves can choose from a number of locations to visit, including the Queen's Cross Church, the Royal Highland Fusiliers Regimental Museum, the Glasgow School of Art and the House for an Art Lover. One of the most important collections of Mackintosh's artistic work can be found at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery.

Glasgow is as good a city as any to enjoy a look into the past, but it also provides plenty of focus on the present and the future, at attractions such as the Glasgow Science Centre. From March 15th this year, the centre's IMAX theatre will be offering Glasgow visitors a truly stunning experience as it presents new fantasy film The Spiderwick Chronicles on a giant screen. Based on the best-selling children's novel by Holly Black, this film features actors including Freddie Highmore and Nick Nolte and is sure to be a hit among kids with a taste for adventure.

Glasgow is now one of Europe's most popular city break destinations and over the coming months it will host a number of major events that will justify and sustain its reputation. One of the most prominent among these is the Glasgow International Festival, a celebration of contemporary visual art that will run from April 11th to 27th. One of the most striking parts of this event will be High Wire, a multi-screen film and video installation by Catherine Yass, showing tightrope walker Didier Pasquette crossing a thin metal wire stretching between three of the tower blocks on Glasgow's Red Road.

Another highlight of the coming months will be the Magners Glasgow International Comedy Festival, which will see a host of top comics visit the Scottish city between March 6th and 23rd.

Dara O'Briain will entertain the Royal Concert Hall on March 12th, before French and Saunders proclaim that they are Still Alive! at the Clyde Auditorium on March 18th and 19th. Some of the best will be saved until last, with Sean Lock, Dave Spikey of Phoenix Nights fame and Jimmy Carr performing at various locations across the city on March 22nd.