National Trust for Scotland & Historic Scotland places in Glasgow

Walled demonstration garden behind a Georgian house on Glasgow's south side, with 3,600 named plants, a Bergenia collection and free woodland walks.

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's finest villa, an 1858 Greek temple of a house on Glasgow's south side with its painted interiors being uncovered.

Miss Cranston's original Willow Tea Rooms of 1903, designed by Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald, restored and serving afternoon tea again.

Agnes Toward's Garnethill flat, kept as she left it in 1965 after 54 years, a gaslit time capsule of Glasgow life with a 1929 pot of jam.

Glasgow's only surviving medieval castle, built about 1400 by the Stewarts of Darnley inside 12th-century earthworks, with a climbable tower and views across the city; free, seasonal hours, street parking only.

Scotland's finest medieval cathedral, the mainland's only one to survive the Reformation intact, with St Mungo's tomb in the great crypt, the pulpitum screen and superb stained glass; free with donations welcome, book a timed slot.