City breaks - About Leeds

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Live life to the full in Leeds, from the moment you rise to the minute you retire.

Welcome to Yorkshire’s 24-hour city. The county’s prime shopping capital is bouncing with nightlife, boasts deliciously creepy back alleys, old pubs with cheese ‘n’ onion crisps and swinging calypso. A place where state-of-the-art architecture and streamline attractions jostle alongside the restored Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian facades of its industrial heartland. 

But, first, the shopping. An unimaginable 4.3 million square feet of it, prompting the city’s boast of being the ‘Knightsbridge of the North’. Harvey Nichols reigns supreme alongside a gaggle of individual shops in quirky arcades. Like the domed Victoria Quarter where light floods through stained glass onto marble and mosaics, and arches lead into stores of Swarovski crystal and cuts by Vivienne Westwood. Built in 1863, the oval-shaped Corn Exchange, a Grade I Listed building, no longer sells kernels; instead, its staircases wind down to funky jeans and retro clothing. Weekends and Bank Holidays down at the canal waterfront, at Granary Wharf, are alive with jugglers and dancers, its regular craft shops and food stalls jazzed up with Moroccan lamps and Indian necklaces.

Leeds’ top 10

1.   Harvey Nichols
2.   Victoria Quarter
3.   Corn Exchange
4.   Malmaison Brasserie
5.   Kirkgate Market
6.   The Light
7.   Simply Heathcotes Brasserie
8.   The Wardrobe
9.   Leeds International Pianoforte and Opera North
10. The West Yorkshire Playhouse

Diane Howse, Lady Lascelles of Harewood House, artist and curator: "I think one of things Leeds has got is the range of people and different cultures that make up the city.  Physically and socially, it really has such a breadth"

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