Glasgow featured in series about Britain’s holiest places
A NEW television show is set to feature some of Scotland’s most sacred sites including Glasgow and St Andrews Cathedrals.
The six-part programme, Britain’s Holiest Places, will also feature the Holy Isle, off the Isle of Arran, and Urquhart Castle on the banks of Loch Ness.
It will feature on BBC4 from March 7 and is based on travel writer Nick Mayhew Smith’s five year mission to visit Britain’s most divine locations.
Mr Mayhew Smith said: “These are places where natural beauty and lingering traces of ancient devotions combine.
“It is a world that is so much more appealing than the sterile debates about religion in the media today. Britain’s religious history is mostly Christian, but it is far more diverse and provocative than you would expect.
“So much is written about our beautiful landscape, so many stories and beliefs that embrace creation and the chaos of human existence in all their glory.”
Glasgow Cathedral is famed as being the final resting place of St Mungo, the city’s first inhabitant, while St Andrews Cathedral was once home to the shrine that gave the country its patron saint.
The documentary also visits the Buddhist retreat on the Holy Isle and delves into claims Urquhart Castle was the setting for a sixth-century sighting of the Loch Ness monster.