Princes Square
Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street in central Glasgow, Scotland. It was first designed and built in the 1840s by John Baird and other architects.Photo: Reading Tom, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Shopping center
- Description: shopping mall in Glasgow City, Scotland, UK
- Also known as: “34-58 Buchanan Street, Princes Square” and “Princes Square, 34-58 Buchanan Street, Glasgow”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Lighthouse and Glasgow Central Station.
The Lighthouse
Arts center
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Lighthouse is the renamed conversion of the former offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper. Completed in 1895, it was designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The Lighthouse is situated 360 feet northwest of Princes Square.
Glasgow Central Station
Railway station
Photo: Robinson3048, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow Central, usually referred to in Scotland as just Central or Central Station, is one of two principal main line rail terminals in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow Central Station is situated 950 feet west of Princes Square.
Gallery of Modern Art
Art gallery
Photo: BrainiacBlink, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gallery of Modern Art is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow, Scotland. GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. Gallery of Modern Art is situated 430 feet northeast of Princes Square.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Merchant City.
Glasgow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Blythswood Hill
Suburb
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blythswood Hill, crowned by Blythswood Square, is an area of central Glasgow, Scotland. Its grid of streets extend from the length of the west side of Buchanan Street to Gordon Street and Bothwell Street, and to Charing Cross, Sauchiehall Street and Garnethill.
Princes Square
- Categories: building and shop
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.85923° or 55° 51′ 33″ northLongitude
-4.25387° or 4° 15′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C7QVP5W+MFOpenStreetMap ID
way 116370220OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
shop=mallWikidata ID
Q7244478
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Dutch—“Princes Square” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “王子广场”
- Dutch: “Princes Square”
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