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The best place to head after the School of Art is the Lighthouse, Glasgow's centre for architecture and design, which was designed by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh and features the 'Mack Room'. Next, head west to the Mackintosh House at the Hunterian Art Gallery, opposite Glasgow University, before stopping off at Queen's Cross Church, CRM's only ecclesiastical building. Now the trail heads south of the river to the Scotland Street School Museum, opposite Shields Road Underground, and the House for an Art Lover, in Bellahouston Park. While you're on the south side of the city, check out the work of Glasgow's other great architect, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, at Holmwood House, in Cathcart. Not forgetting Thomson's greatest achievement, his St Vincent Street Church. Glasgow boasts more than 70 parks in all, from Glasgow Green in the East End to Kelvingrove Park in the West End, but it is Pollok Country Park in the South Side which exerts the greatest pull as this is home to the Burrell Collection, Glasgow's most visited sight and one of the largest art collections in the UK outside London.
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