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Liverpool exploded into life in the 18th century, rapidly turning from a small town into one of the world’s most important port cities. For 200 years, it eclipsed most of Europe in the trading stakes – nationally and internationally, Liverpool was where it was at. What does that mean for the visitor today? You’ve only to look up: a skyline that’s part of a World Heritage Site, a waterfront that never fails to impress, and Georgian streets that are as graceful as they are grand. It is these architectural cheekbones that, along with the grand sweep of the River Mersey, make Liverpool such a visual treat. Sure, the city was for years on its uppers, its post-industrial decline as swift as it was comprehensive. But Liverpool has reinvented itself, as a Capital of Culture, as the home of the UK’s leading visual arts event, Liverpool Biennial, as the place where artists make work and where a new, creative future is being written. It is this combination of grace and ambition, wit and occasional decay that it typical of Liverpool; all this and the fact that it is one of the friendliest cities we know. Like the Liver Birds sitting atop the city’s most famous building, one turned to the sea, one turned to home, Liverpool is a city with a world view, yet a place with a personal, personable one too.

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The books are back in town: Liverpool’s Central Library re-opens

0 Posted by 9 May 2013
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Liverpool-Central-Library-Atrium courtesy Open Culture
It’s a nod to Liverpool’s literary past & its status as one of the world’s great port cities

After a £50m revamp, Liverpool’s historic venue chooses Light Night to mark its grand revival. At a time when many of us are forced to campaign against the closure of our local libraries, it’s refreshing…

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