subject: Spend a Weekend Visiting Liverpool's Top Attractions [print this page] Spend a Weekend Visiting Liverpool's Top Attractions
For a city full of atmosphere, culture, living heritage and a reputation for a good time, you could do a lot worse than spending a weekend discovering Liverpool. After winning 2008's Capital City of Culture award, Liverpool has re-emerged on Britain's cultural map as a buzzing city to explore, with history around every corner and exciting new developments taking pride of place along the Mersey. Although always popular for stag and hen parties, and of course football, the modern Liverpool is a superb all-round family city break, with many attractions to experience.
Of course, no visit to Liverpool can be complete without acknowledging the city's most famous sons, the Fab Four. Everywhere you look in Liverpool you can usually find a reference to the Beatles, and rightly so as they are ingrained in the city's history and are a vital part of its economy, but when it comes to visiting the most famous Beatles' sites, few are more iconic than The Cavern Club.
Dubbed the most famous nightclub in the world, The Cavern Club is legendary as the birthplace of the Beatles. Though still operating under the same name as a very successful music venue, walk into the cavernous space and Parisian cellar themed bar and the heritage is everywhere. As much a shrine to the Fab Four as an influence, The Cavern Club shot to stardom after the Beatles' residency and is a great late night haunt to this day.
Leave the busy city centre behind and head to Albert Dock. Though slightly hidden away, this waterfront stretch of land has been redeveloped as Liverpool's place to be'. A thriving hub of restaurants and bars, interspersed with heritage museums like The Merseyside Maritime Museum and The National Slavery Museum; this district both welcomes in the new Liverpool and conserves the old.
Even if art isn't your idea of fun, no visit to Liverpool should be considered complete without heading to Moorfields in the city centre, where Richard Wilson's installation art is the talk of the streets below. Named Turning the Place Over', Wilson has cut a giant circle out of a tower block and it now rotates at random times during the day: both fascinating and otherworldly to watch, and free of course. If however art is on your itinerary, then a visit to the Tate Liverpool is a must. Taking pride of place in the Albert Dock district, the famous gallery features a vast range of contemporary and classic modern art.
There are many more ways to fill your day on a trip to Liverpool too, from taking a ferry across the famous Mersey to visiting the childhood homes of Lennon and McCartney. For a break out of the city centre though, try the relaxing Sefton Park, complete with its own Victorian Palm House, or head out to Aintree Racecourse to bet on a winner. For more information visit a tourist information office, or most of the many Liverpool hotels will have freely available information on the best local attractions too.
