About Leicester

About Leicester

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Delight your senses with the sights, sounds and tastes within one of Britain’s most colourful cities. 

Steeped in history and home to a vibrant street market, Leicester has a thriving Asian community that gives the city its own distinctive flavour.

Like many cities based on the manufacturing industry, Leicester had to discover a new identity when its prosperous garment factories of the 1950s and 1960s began to close down. Leicester responded by reinventing itself as a city that has not one identity but several. And when you can boast some of the best curries in the country, a space centre and a wooden woolly mammoth, why confine yourself to just one?

Leicester’s top 10

1.   National Space Centre 
2.   Belgrave Road 
3.   New Walk Museum and Art Gallery 
4.   Great Central Railway (Loughborough)
5.   Eco House 
6.   Jain Centre 
7.   Discover Leicester Open Top Bus Tours (Seasonal)
8.   Haymarket Theatre 
9.   Leicester City Football Club 
10. Leicester Tigers (Rugby Club)

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