Презентация - 7 интересных фактов о Ливерпуле

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7 FACTS ABOUT IT
LIVERPOOL

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Liverpool is probably the most contrasting city of England. This is the mixture of the old England and trendy buildings in high-tech style. If you ask Liverpudlians to describe briefly their city, each and everyone will answer that Liverpool is the UK's largest port. Indeed, Liverpool is the largest port and a major industrial city in Great Britain.

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Wherever you look, there happen to be a factory, a dock or a plant with solid brick walls. Here, even the houses look like small manufacturing plants.

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Liverpool was famous for being a home harbor to the cruise liner "Titanic". And presently these docks have become an area of luxury estates where wealthy Englishmen dwell.

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The center of Liverpool is an ongoing music festival.

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Anyone can view Liverpool from the height in the viewing booth of Big Wheel or from the Tower of RADIO CITY

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Liverpool is the birthplace of «The Beatles», who invented a new style of music. Thousands of people come here to visit The Beatles’ memorable places. Interestingly, but it is harder to get into museum of John Lennon than into NASA. Museum «The Beatles story Liverpool» is the only museum in Liverpool which charges an entrance fee.

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The most favorite street food is “jacket potatoes” (unpeeled potatoes in their skins).

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The cuisine of Port of Liverpool is the dishes that have been eaten by the pirates, smuggler, dockers and seamen from the days of yore. Boiled cod has been the food of dockers and seamen. When the wet and chilly sailors landed ashore they helped themselves with mushroom soup to warm up. But only captains could afford shrimp kebab.

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There is Crosby beach just 20 minutes by commuter train from Liverpool. It is main attraction is not swimming or for a suntan but for the chance of having a look at hundred of cast iron sculptors. For several years already, they have been standing here in the surf and looking into the distance. This art installation is called "another place", and takes more than three kilometers of the sea coast wide and one kilometer of sea deep. The author of the project the sculptor Antony Gormley says he was trying to show that the human being is as much a part of nature, the waves, the city, sand and clouds. Locals call them a hundred of drowned; every day at high tide they go under the water and come back every morning next day.