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Price is €158 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

    • Hear the stories behind Glasgow’s most notorious crimes
    • Discover the city’s grim prison and punishment history
    • Uncover Glasgow’s darker connections to the slave trade
    • Hear tales of gangs, criminals and notorious characters
    • Explore Glasgow’s ghostly stories and urban legends

Activity location

    • Glasgow
    • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Castle St, Glasgow G4 0QZ, UK | Please meet your guide outside the main entrance to Glasgow Cathedral.
    • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Glasgow: Private Dark Side Tour

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
€157.73 x 1 Traveller€157.73
Total
Price is €157.73

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Local, expert guide!

Know before you book

    • Not suitable for: Children under 12 years
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

  • 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.

    Key highlights:

    • Hear the stories behind Glasgow’s most notorious crimes
    • Discover the city’s grim prison and punishment history
    • Uncover Glasgow’s darker connections to the slave trade
    • Hear tales of gangs, criminals and notorious characters
    • Meet the mysterious Gorbals Vampire
    • Explore Glasgow’s ghostly stories and urban legends
    • Discover stories of grave robbing and resurrectionists

Location

Activity location

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    • Glasgow
    • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Castle St, Glasgow G4 0QZ, UK | Please meet your guide outside the main entrance to Glasgow Cathedral.
    • Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom