Liverpool - Amazing Port Town Home of the Beatles

There are few cities in the UK that have the same international reputation as Liverpool. This remarkable place in the Northwest of England is best known these days for the fact that it was the birthplace of the world's most famous rock band -- the Beatles, who were founded in the city in the early 1960s, however there is so much more to Liverpool than just being the original home of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

The modern city of Liverpool has undergone a huge redevelopment since the late 1980s, and this has led to it becoming a much more enjoyable place to visit than it has ever been before. Thanks to the naming of the city as the European City of Culture for 2008, Liverpool has been given a complete spring clean, and a new arena to rival the best in Europe. This has led to a vast new calendar of events being arranged in the city throughout the year, and a rebirth of the city as a cool place.

For nearly half a century, the people of Liverpool had to watch as their near neighbors in Manchester gained from the additional investment that the city gained as Liverpool's international role as an international port declined.

Liverpool has always been a place of contrasts. Home to two of the UK's best supported football teams in the form of Liverpool and Everton, and a city long divided on religious grounds, Liverpool has two stunning cathedrals that dominate the city center. The Metropolitan Cathedral is a gothic masterpiece, only completed in the 1970s, it is the largest brick building in the world, and has won numerous awards. This is contrasted with the modern splendor of the Cathedral of Christ the King, which is the Roman Catholic Cathedral close by. Arguably a more daring building than the Protestant Cathedral, it has redefined spirituality in the city, and is one of the most visited places of worship in the whole of Europe thanks to its unique and stunning design, which intends to put the whole of religion into the context of the modern world.