Today I happened upon Glasgow's Mitchell Library for the first time in my life. I was going back into the town centre after a work meeting, glanced down a side street and noticed this big, imposing, classical building hiding there. I couldn't help but wonder why Glasgow doesn't show it off more. Its the sort of building that, if it was in Italy, would probably be the focal point of its own piazza, surrounded by cafes and swarming with tourists. Yet there it sits, on the wrong end of the M8, its ornate frontage facing south like some shy beauty hiding behind cloaks and veils. What a shame.
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