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Tourist Information Guide to Manchester
Manchester is world renowned as the first industrialised city in the world, but the city also boasts an important cultural and musical heritage. The city’s role in showcasing innovative punk bands in the 70s, and underground music in the 80s, cemented Manchester’s reputation as a contemporary and vibrant area.
The city’s nightlife, restaurants and cultural facilities rival those of the capital city, and the shopping facilities are unparalleled. Millions of pounds of regeneration funding have flooded in since the IRA bomb of 1996, and the city developed world-class sporting facilities for the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
Manchester’s continued rise in importance is evidenced by the new Beetham Tower, the tallest residential building in the United Kingdom, and ‘B of the Bang’, the tallest sculpture in Britain.
Namur Tourist Information
Over the past hundreds of years, Namur has acquired the status of being one of the most strategic places in Belgium because of its geographical location. Namur dwells at the confluence of the Sambre River and the Meuse River which are the six major waterways. The very fact that the town is located at the union of these six rivers bears a lot in terms of historical and military significance.
Namur is the capital of Wallonia, the italian speaking southern part of Belgium. it is also the most important town in the province of Namur. This place of historic interest is situated 60 km southeast of Brussels, Belgium’s capital city.
The foundation of Namur goes back to the age elderly Roman period. Namur played a major role due to its strategic location and the place witnessed plenty of wars and later destruction of monuments and buildings right from Roman aggression through the Second World War. The city has undergone plenty of makeover with changing times. You may not find plenty of archaeological remains or artifacts because most of them have been destroyed in historical conquests. However the city is rich enough to offer the visitor plenty of pleasant diversions which may leave him or her asking for more.