Leicester tourist information
Leicester England
Leicester is a city with a long and varied past engrained in the fabric of its buildings and the character of its businesses and people, but it is also a city which looks to the future. It is a city with the commitment to develop a quality environment over the next thirty years. More than anything it is a city of diversity, offering citizens and visitors alike the benefits of a cosmopolitan environment.
Leicester's history goes back to the Iron Age. The original inhabitants, the Corieltauvi tribe, gave their name to the settlement of the conquering Romans, Ratae Corieltauvorum which prospered as a trading centre on the Fosse Way. Evidence of the Roman past can still be found in the modern city. There are numerous mosaics gathered in the Jewry Wall Museum, built alongside a Roman wall and baths.
Shopping in Leicester has a new vitality. The Market has been here for seven hundred years but it is now complemented by newly pedestrianised shopping streets and the spectacular Shires Shopping Centre.
Forget Jurassic Park, we've got the biggest dinosaur in Europe and it's in The Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery on New Walk. The colossus from Rutland has to be the City's oldest resident and is the highlight of a wonderfully varied collection which ranges from ancient Egyptian relics to German expressionist paintings. The museum also houses an important decorative arts collection and is host to a variety of special exhibitions like the recently acclaimed People's Show.
Leicester is Britain's first Environment City. The designation was awarded in 1990 by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation and the Civic Trust in recognition of the city's pioneering environmental programmes.
Leicester has long been graced with an abundance of parkland. Just beyond the city boundary lie almost one thousand acres of wild moorland and ancient woods at Bradgate and Swithland. You can see deer roam freely and peacocks strut in the ruins of Lady Jane Grey's house.
Leicester aerial map
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