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Liverpool is a port city in Merseyside, England, on the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary near the Irish Sea, 286 km north-west of London. Its top sights are the Royal Albert Dock and the Royal Liver Building on the waterfront, the two cathedrals, St George's Hall, the Walker Art Gallery and the Beatles' Cavern Club.
Liverpool became a borough in 1207 and grew in the late 17th century as its port joined the Atlantic slave trade and imported cotton for the Lancashire mills. It was home to the first inter-city railway and the first non-combustible warehouse system, and it was granted city status in 1880.
The city had an estimated 507,915 people in 2025 and has the UK's second highest number of art galleries, national museums and listed buildings, after London. It produced the Beatles, and its recording artists have had more UK No. 1 singles than anywhere else in the world.
The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock warehouses on the Liverpool waterfront, designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1846 as the world's first non-combustible warehouse system. It closed in 1972, reopened in 1984 and is now a major tourist attraction.
The Royal Liver Building at the Pier Head in Liverpool opened in 1911 as the home of Royal Liver Assurance and is one of the city's Three Graces. A Grade I listed early reinforced concrete building by Walter Aubrey Thomas, it is crowned by the two famous Liver birds.
The Museum of Liverpool tells the story of the city and its people in a purpose-built building on Mann Island at the Pier Head. Designed by 3XN and opened on 19 June 2011 at a cost of £72 million, it holds more than 6,000 objects in 8,000 m² of exhibition space.
The Beatles Story is a museum about the Beatles on Liverpool's Royal Albert Dock, opened on 1 May 1990. It recreates the Casbah Coffee Club, the Cavern Club and Abbey Road Studios and shows items such as John Lennon's spectacles and George Harrison's first guitar.
Liverpool Cathedral, the Anglican Cathedral Church of Christ, is the largest cathedral and religious building in Britain, built from 1904 to 1978 to a design by Giles Gilbert Scott. At 189 m it is the longest cathedral in the world, and its tower rises 101 m over Liverpool.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, is the city's Roman Catholic cathedral, nicknamed Paddy's Wigwam. Designed by Frederick Gibberd after a worldwide competition, it was built from 1962 to 1967 and is Grade I listed.
St George's Hall, opposite Lime Street station in the centre of Liverpool, is a Grade I listed Neoclassical building of concert halls and law courts opened in 1854. Designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, its Great Hall is 52 m long and 25 m high, inspired by the Baths of Caracalla.
The Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool opened on 6 September 1877 and holds one of the largest art collections in England outside London. Named after the brewer Sir Andrew Barclay Walker, it shows works by Rembrandt, Poussin and Degas and a major collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
The Cavern Club on Mathew Street in Liverpool opened on 16 January 1957 as a jazz club and became a centre of the Merseybeat scene, regularly hosting the Beatles in their early years. Closed in 1973 and filled in during rail works, it reopened in 1984 and has been open since 1991.
World Museum is Liverpool's free museum of archaeology, ethnology and the natural and physical sciences, begun in 1851 with the 13th Earl of Derby's natural history collection. Damaged in the 1941 Blitz, it was enlarged in 2005 and has a planetarium that opened in 1970.
Sefton Park in south Liverpool is the city's largest public park, covering 235 acres and Grade I listed, designed by Édouard André and Lewis Hornblower and opened on 20 May 1872. It has a lake, a Victorian bandstand and the Grade II* Palm House, a three-tier domed conservatory of 1896.
Speke Hall is a wood-framed wattle-and-daub Tudor manor house in Speke, on the southern edge of Liverpool, and one of the finest surviving examples of its kind. Begun under Sir William Norris in 1530 and completed with a north range in 1598, it is Grade I listed and run by the National Trust.
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