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LIVERPOOL KEY RIBA ARCHITECTURE INFORMATION IS WORLD- WALKING RENOWNED TOURS

Liverpool, a Unesco World Heritage Site, is one of All our walking tours last approximately 2 hours the UK’s greatest and has so many wonderful and groups sizes are limited to 16 guests. buildings, open spaces and monuments which chart Prices 300 years of its fascinating history. £8.50 / £6.50 concessions (students and 60+)

RIBA Walking Tours help you discover a wide range Booking of architectural styles such as Neoclassical, Georgian, Tickets can be booked at: Baroque, Gothic, Art Deco, Brutalist and Modernist www.architecture.com/contact-and-visit/riba-north and you will learn the story of Liverpool’s past, present Contact us and future. We’d love to hear from you and we can be contacted via: The VisitEngland Quality Assured tours are led by Email: [email protected] RIBA guides who are passionate about the of Phone: 44 (0)151 703 0107 Liverpool and its architecture. Our office hours are Monday-Friday 9am to 5pm. Facebook: RIBA North National Architecture Centre Twitter: @RIBANorth architecture.com/RIBANorth

If you decide on one activity on your trip to Liverpool, make it one of the RIBA tours. You will see ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS a fantastic range of buildings and some wonderful interiors which you might not see if you tried to do the walk alone. Meticulously planned, with not a minute wasted. 21 Liverpool L3 1BP Registered Charity No. 210 566 Incorporated by Royal Charter No. RC000484 architecture.com/RIBANorth architecture.com/RIBANorth architecture.com/RIBANorth Gateway to the World City of Culture, Learning and Faiths Sculpture, Culture and Civic Pride Hear how Liverpool gained an and the Town Hall, and of more Marvel at Liverpool’s two the Philharmonic Hall and Explore Liverpool’s beautiful Brown Street to see more international reputation as a modern developments such as stunning and contrasting . Cultural Quarter, home to fascinating places of culture pre-eminent gateway for Mann Island and . cathedrals which bookend this Tour dates some of the city’s most such as the , shipping, trade and the movement Tour dates tour. Stroll along Hope Street, awe-inspiring buildings and the Library and the of people while exploring this one of the city’s most important June: 15, 22, 29 neoclassical architecture. . June: 2, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, : 6, 13, 20, 27, fascinating area of the Unesco thoroughfares, and discover See the stunning interior of Tour dates World Heritage Site. Take a 22, 23, 26, 27, 29, 30 the beautiful architecture and Aug: 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 St. George’s Hall, before taking July: 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 20, June: 20 closer look at the stunning intriguing history of a variety a closer look at some of the architecture of historic buildings, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31 of cultural and educational wonderful sculpture and July: 4, 18 including the iconic “Three Graces”, Aug: 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21, buildings such as the award- monuments on The Plateau. Aug: 1, 15, 29 , Martins 22, 24, 25, 28, 31 winning Everyman Theatre, Then stroll down William

architecture.com/RIBANorth architecture.com/RIBANorth Ropewalks: Growth, Decline and Regeneration Liverpool ONE: The Remaking of a City Centre Discover an area which once derelict premises back to Find out how 42 acres of land Tour dates played a crucial role in the and introducing some new in the heart of Liverpool were June: 7 growth of the city as a world buildings and open spaces. transformed into this thriving July: 5 class seaport. Evidence of this Tour dates commercial, residential and can still be seen in its large Aug: 2 June: 14, 21, 28 leisure complex which connects collection of former factories, the city centre to the waterfront. small warehouses, merchants’ July: 12, 19, 26 The tour takes in a range houses and terraces. Since the Aug: 9, 16, 23, 30 of architectural styles from late 1990s, the Ropewalks has the stunning Bluecoat to the been redeveloped, bringing distinctive Bling Bling building.