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Modern culture centres, picturesque canals, excellent museums and award-winning haute cuisine. Travel with Aegean Airlines to Birmingham and discover how the once industrial heart of England has transformed into a hot cultural destination.

Sights worth visiting in Birmingham

Industrial heritage buildings, old churches and modern design creations compose a collection of stunning monuments and sights to visit in the city.

• Birmingham’s New Public Library building (2013) is a post-modern masterpiece dominating Centenary square. It may look like a stack of boxes wrapped in metal lace with a circle motif, but its outward appearance conceals a 10-story building with the latest technology. The library houses Britain’s most important Shakespeare collection.
• The Jewellery Quarter is a live historic environment, where silversmiths, goldsmiths and traders in gems have been doing a flourishing business for the past 250 years. Visit one of the workshops, which are open to the public during working hours, and learn the secrets of the master craftsmen. Alternatively, you can visit the Jewellery Museum.
• St Philip Cathedral (1709-1715), not far from central Victoria Square, is an excellent example of baroque architecture with magnificent stained-glass windows.
• For art-lovers, the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in the city centre has 40 rooms and more than 500,000 world class works from various periods. Together with the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, they are the city’s foremost cultural institutions.

Trips near Birmingham

The beautiful English countryside and the West Midlands are full of magical locations for daytrips.

• Very close to Birmingham is the famous village of Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, which is an ideal destination for anyone who wants to follow in the footsteps of England’s top Bard.
• For lovers of medieval myths and legends, all the roads lead to the historic town of Warwick and the grandiose castle of the same name. The entire region is an enormous historical and natural park where you can find anything from actors performing live reproductions of medieval life to ghost walks in the castle dungeons.

Thanks to the city’s abundant cultural tourism, Birmingham is an ideal year-round destination. Travel with Aegean Airlines to Birmingham and enjoy some of the internationally renown productions of the Birmingham Royal Ballet or a guided tour to one of the most fabulous chocolate factories in the world.

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