The Necropolis is a Victorian garden cemetery full of beautiful architecture, sculpture and fascinating stories. A favourite attraction for site visitors from the United Kingdom and remote places, The Necropolis has been defined as a 'particular representation of Victorian Glasgow, constructed when Glasgow was the second town of the empire’.  It remains one of the maximum sizable cemeteries in Europe, excellent in its contribution to the townscape, its symbolic relationship to Glasgow Cathedral and to the medieval coronary heart of the City. Guided tours are available from Friends of the Necropolis, who organize tours of the 37 acre cemetery masking the tremendous structure by way of well-known Glaswegian architects together with Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Bryce, Hamilton and Mackintosh. The top of The Necropolis also gives beautiful views of the metropolis, wherein you can surprise on the antique and new architecture and notice just why Glasgow is called the Dear Green Place. Like maximum Victorian burial web sites, Glasgow’s Necropolis is laid out like a casual park with meandering paths running at some point of a great collection of gravestones that’s reminiscent of the similarly huge Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.