Your Ultimate Guide to Liverpool, England

Liverpool is most popularly known as the city of the Beatles and its namesake FC. But there is much more to this UNESCO City of music than you probably know. From Batman and Avengers to Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter, UK’s most filmed city after London, Liverpool has been in the backdrop of some of your favourite movies and it’ll take you just one visit to understand why its been charming people since decades.

About a 2 hour train ride away from London lies England’s finest Victorian city. With a collection of over 2500 listed buildings, large parts of Liverpool have been declared as World Heritage Sites. Walking in the streets you found yourself time travelling through 300 years of architecture, and if that isn’t enough, its culture will bowl you over as outside London, Liverpool houses the most visited museums most diverse collection of artworks.

Now that we’ve convinced you to put Liverpool on your travel bucket list, let us tell you how to have the best time in the world’s 4th friendliest city!

Immerse yourself in Music!

If you’re a true fan of the Beatles, relive their entire life story at the Beatles Story Museum and visit their old joint, Cavern Club and spend an evening listening to haunting covers of their music. If you want to make your followers swoon over your exposure to their world, pay a visit to the Beatles Statue at the Dock, get clicked at Penny Lane, sign your name outside Strawberry Fields or post a casual chilling picture from outside John Lennon’s childhood home. If you’re a real music lover, catch a show at the Liverpool Philharmonic and do not miss the British Music Experience Museum for a deep dive into the world of BME.

A Building with Motifs of the Members of the Beatles

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Learn a thing or two at the Museums!

Whether you want to educate yourself about the history of the world, slavery or Liverpool, the city’s got you covered. Liverpool is a particularly wet city and I kid you not you can spend an entire rainy day indoors just taking in the wide array of exhibits on at all times. During England’s busiest year of travel, Liverpool’s oldest, the World Museum, was the most visited museum outside of London. It is highly informative and eye catching for one and all. While controversial, I highly recommend the Slavery Museum to those looking to educate themselves more before participating in a debate, and Liverpool Museum is just a delight owing to the mish mash of cultures it has seen over its history.

Museum of Liverpool located at the Dock

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Pray with an eye open as you check out some Off Beat Cathedrals!

A trip to European Cities is incomplete without visiting one of their cathedrals so how can Liverpool be complete without them? But like all things, Liverpool has added its own zest to it. The 3 cathedrals I’m about to tell you of are so unique and are such place makers that you don’t need to put it on your list, you are bound to come across them and once you do, you’ll be compelled make your way in. Liverpool Cathedral and the Metropolitan Cathedral are 3 mins away from each other. They face each other and are so grand in size that they tower over most of the area. While the Liverpool Cathedral has some of the highest Gothic arches in the world and is the 5th largest cathedral in the world, the Metropolitan Cathedral, dreamt by Lutyens, is so contemporary and abstract that you would be second guessing yourself whether to call it a cathedral or not. The third special place is held by St. Luke’s. This was bombed in 1941 wherein its lost its roof but retained most of its structure. What stands today are beautiful ruins in the middle of a busy street where the city often holds weddings and cultural events.

Interiors of the Liverpool Cathedral

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Travel Through Time and Netflix!

There is a reason why Liverpool has been termed as the Hollywood of the North. Most of the streets here are still dotted by age old heritage buildings so the city still retains most of its old time Victorian era charm. To shoot period dramas here, very little editing is required. Whether you want to hunt down locations of your favourite movies and shows, or just marvel at Victorian architecture or click some beautiful out-of-the-world interior pictures, Liverpool city centre is bursting with options. Visit the Williamson’s Tunnels, the Central Library and St. George’s Hall, the Royal Liver Building and the Royal Albert Dock - home to England’s largest collection of Grade Listed Buildings. For more fill of architecture, spend an afternoon at the Bluecoat or eat Chinese Europe’s oldest Chinese settlement at Chinatown.

Liver Building

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Chinatown

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Catch a Game!

At the Anfield Stadium or the Goodison Park. Football is religion for Liverpool and there is hardly a better place to experience that worship in its most authentic version than at Anfield.

Make the little ones fall in love with Liverpool!

Squirrels are these cute little harmless furry friends scurrying around in everyone’s parks that you would have adored seeing and now you’d be adoring your kids running behind them. Which makes the Formby Red Squirrel Reserve an idyllic spot for you to take your little squirrels to. If you’re one of those parents who constantly wish you could make your kids play with your childhood toys, visit the Vintage Playroom, the perfect spot for you to be a kid with your kids. And for some routine style kid fun, you could always visit the trampoline parks near Royal Albert Dock, the perfect evening hang out space for adults.

Satiate the Picasso in You!

Whether your medium of art is drama, photography, street art, funny looking sculptures or expensive artwork, Liverpool has you covered. The Open Eye Gallery and the Tate at the Docks are perfect viewing galleries for a slow paced day. The Shakespeare Playhouse is perfect to catch one of UK’s famous theatre shows and the colourful street art tours and the very colourful Superlambanana and Penelope Sculptures are just whimsical and comical enough to leave you in hysterics!

Liverpool Street Art

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