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Glasgow Necropolis: Scotland's Instagram Worthy Graveyard
Glasgow
Necropolis
An overlooking spot is a traveler’s best friend, no
matter what it is. Even if it happens to be a cemetery, much more a Victorian
cemetery such as the Glasgow Necropolis in Glasgow,
Scotland. Cue slightly horror music in your head
right now. It is on a short and small, but actually very prominent hill to the
east of Glasgow
Cathedral. It’s a resting place for at least fifty
thousand people, with roughly around 3,500 tombs, featuring monuments, status,
pinnacles, and grave stones. Everything is detailed out with overelaborate
sculptures and presence – it’s not as sad or horrific as what a typical
cemetery is known for, it’s quite intriguing, especially the part where it
stands on top of a beautiful overlooking spot of Glasgow.
The leading entrance point to the Glasgow
Necropolis is a bridge known as the “Bridge
of Sighs”, which more than likely earned its name, because it formed part
of the funeral procession route. There are few modern memorials that can be
found inside too, a memorial to still-born
children; a memorial to the Korean
War; and a memorial to
Glaswegian recipients of the Victoria
Cross.
Despite Glasgow Necropolis being known as
“literally a city of the dead”, it’s one of the most significant and most
visited cemeteries in Europe – and I don’t wonder why. I had the cemetery all
to myself one late sunset afternoon and I could have sworn that Glasgow glowed
as the moon reunited with the skies. It’s a place where you can take dazzling panoramic shots of Glasgow without the crazy tourist crowd. It’s a place you can find yourself into, if you are looking for that life-death kind of pondering session. If Forrest Gump, Chuck Noland, and Tom Hanks would find themselves sitting around. Would you mind hanging around here?
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