Famed

Famed
for football, music and distinctive haircuts, Manchester
has left an indelible mark on the world.
England‘s “Capital of the North”, this once industrial city is
now perhaps the
UK‘s most vibrant, and in recent years its progressive attitude
and thriving street culture has proved a magnet for a new breed of
youthful, international resident.

While one of the country’s largest metropolises, its relatively
condensed urban core is a coup for visitors, with distinctive
neighbourhoods jostling for supremacy beside one another, but
easily navigable on foot.

The cobbled streets of the Northern Quarter and the budding
Ancoats districts are a cosseted world of cool cafés, independent
shops and diverse drinking dens. Break out from this hipster haven,
however, and there’s the neon-lit Chinatown,
with its authentic dim-sum restaurants and karaoke bars; the glossy
boutiques and cocktail bars of Spinningfields, flanked by
contemporary skyscrapers; and an abundance of sweeping city-centre
squares bordered by art galleries and imposing neo-gothic
architecture.

George Orwell may have described Manchester as the “belly and
guts of the nation”, but with a warm people and an open character,
it may just be its heart as well.