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Events (General Listing)

Magical History Tour
28/7/2007 to 27/9/2009

Ellen Kent Amphitheatre Productions presents Aida
27/3/2008 to 28/3/2009

The Beat Goes On
12/7/2008 to 1/11/2009

Stuart Sutcliffe Retrospective
21/8/2008 to 31/1/2009

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 08/09 Season Announcement
1/9/2008 to 30/6/2009

Web of Light
30/9/2008 to 31/1/2009

Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
2/10/2008 to 18/1/2009

Only a Game?
11/10/2008 to 1/3/2009

Recollections
17/10/2008 to 22/2/2009

Croxteth Hall Farm and Walled Garden Open
25/10/2008 to 1/4/2009

Chester shopping © Ian Lawson Photography

Chester and Port Sunlight Experience

Port Sunlight village has more than 900 Grade 2 listed buildings and as well as the Lady Lever Art Gallery, famous for its collections of 18th and 19th-century paintings, furniture and outstanding Wedgwood Chester is completely encircled by city walls and has a 2000-year-old Roman Amphitheatre.

The 13th-century 'Rows' are two tiers of enticing shops, running through the main streets.

There's also a fine Norman cathedral, the Roman remains at the Grosvenor Museum, the oldest racecourse in Britain and street after street of charming black and white Tudor architecture.

Chester is magnificent in scale and breathtaking in beauty.

Duration: six hours

 

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