Liverpool Tourist Information & Travel Guide

Liverpool is a city that is based in the North West of England, in the borough of Merseyside and consists of a population of just over 435,000. The city was seen as a major port as Liverpool grew tremendously through urbanisation and growth of land. Forty percent of international, global trade went by Liverpool’s docks in the early part of the nineteenth century, which in effect contributed to the city status Liverpool acclaimed.

Local residents are widely known as ‘Scousers’, a term stemming from the local dish ’scouse’, which is basically a mould of stew. The city’s dialect is also now famously ‘scouse’ and is immediately identified from residing from the north of the country. As Liverpool is mainly a port city, it is highly multicultural and has residents from a diverse rage of cultures, religion and backgrounds. The city has a high level of tourism stemming from popular music legends local to the area such as The Beatles.

The focal attraction in Liverpool is The Albert Dock, which is in fact one of Britain’s leading tourist spot. Here you will find some of the finest modern art in the region and also worth a visit is The Merseyside Maritime Museum and The International Slavery Museum. These museums are the largest, in size in all of Europe of their origin.

At these museums there are commentaries on the life of The Beatles, where visitors can travel and take a tour through their story depicting their impact on the Cultural Revolution in the 1960’s. The museums look at the history behind The Docks at via the Yellow Duckmarine sightseeing tour which is largely water based.

Visitors are also able to indulge in the Big Mersey Adventure where you can board a ferry and enjoy a trip to view destination sights. To accompany this visitors can go too the Spaceport based at the Seacombe terminal for ferry’s looking closely at space themes.

For shopping, the Metquarter is an indoor shopping centre that houses brands including Armani, Diesel, All Saints, Miss Sixty, Kurt Geiger, Tommy Hilfiger and many more top end retailers. The Metquarter opened in February 2006 after £70million worth of development was invested into establishing the shopping centre.

Liverpool has brilliant architecture especially in the form of St Georges Hall which recently went through a huge £23 million restoration programme. It then re opened in Spring 2007 by The Prince of Wales illustrating the magnificent architecture and newly built Heritage Centre where visitors can see the prison cells where prisoners were kept prior to trial. There is also a Learning Suite for school children where they are informed about the historic value to the hall.

For an ever more cultural insight into the city, you can visit The Cathedral Church of Christ which is an absolutely spectacular building and holds a live church that has a large choir of 60 people. It is an extremely vibrant church that follows a Christian Gospel religious practice.

The nightlife in Liverpool is superb as The Cavern Club draws in global fans of The Beatles who undoubtedly assigned its iconic status. They would play live here and in effect have gained international recognition of the place. The building in itself is historically significant as Britain nominated as ‘The Building Britain Is Most Proud Of’.

About the Author:
Iain McGuigan - CityLocal Liverpool http://www.citylocal.co.uk/cities/Liverpool http://www.citylocal.co.uk/cities/Liverpool/business/All/ http://www.citylocal.co.uk/frontend/latestbusinesses.local.php?cityid=271 http://www.citylocal.co.uk/frontend/latestfreebusinesses.php?cityid=271

Send Flowers : florist flower delivery, flowers by delivery, ftd flower delivery, send flowers gifts