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Cambridge
Attractions
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Despite
being a small city, there are always many things happening
in Cambridge. Throughout the year Cambridge hosts a variety
of festivals not to mention many other events held weekly
and monthly at numerous venues across the city. Some major
events are also held nearby such as Air Shows at the nationally-famous
Imperial War Museum at Duxford or horseracing at the place
of its birth, Newmarket.
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Attractions
in Cambridge
- Cambridge
University college buildings -
wonderful architecture steeped in history
- King's
College Chapel - fabulous Gothic chapel
with the world's largest fan-vaulted ceiling
- Fitzwilliam
Museum - free museum of art and antiquities
including paintings by Picasso, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, etc
- University
Museums - numerous free research museums
dedicated to a variety of subjects. Museums include Zoology,
Archaeology & Anthropology, Geology, History of Science,
Classical Archaeology, Scott Polar
Research Institute
- Botanic
Gardens - beautiful research gardens
exhibiting a wide variety of plant species from around the world
- Punting
- glide quietly through the college buildings on a chauffered
or self-hired boat
- Mathematical
Bridge
- Isaac Newton's eye-catching bridge built across the River
Cam viewable from a punt
- The
Bridge of Sighs - bridge similar to
its namesake in Venice, Italy, linking the buildings of St.
John's College on each bank of the River Cam viewable from a
punt
Attractions
near Cambridge
- Grantchester
- small traditional, quintessentially English village 2 miles
upriver from Cambridge famed for its thatched cottages and The
Orchard Tea Garden where you can take tea under the apple trees
- American
Cemetery - impressive, peaceful, hillside
cemetery 3 miles outside Cambridge commemorating the US soldiers
that died in WWII in this area of operations of the war.
- Imperial
War Museum, Duxford - Europe's largest
military museum with wonderful exhibits of air and land warfare
hardware, 10 miles south of Cambridge
- Audley
End, Saffron Walden - the retreat
for a succession of british monarchs, Audley End is a palatial
Jacobean mansion with Capability Brown-designed gardens 12 miles
south of Cambridge
- Ely
Cathedral - one of the UK's premier
cathedrals, a cornerstone of English history
- Newmarket
- famous as the headquarters of British flat horseracing, visit
the National Stud or the National Horseracing Museum
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Festivals |
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Cambridge
hosts numerous festivals all year round. Here is just a pick of
them:
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Music |
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Cambridge
hosts all kinds of live music from classical to jazz, rock to
rap, heavy metal to punk....
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Cambridge
has a thriving theatre life with some of the best venues in the
UK for theatre....
- Cambridge
Arts Theatre - venue for professional UK-touring
theatrical and dance productions
- ADC
Theatre - amateur theatrical and dance productions
at the Cambridge University theatre
- Mumford
Theatre - varied mix of theatre and music at the
alternative University in Cambridge, ARU
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Like
any major city, Cambridge boasts quality cinemas showing the best
in blockbusters and independent films....
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The
city offers more than just the above....
- Pubs
- from large to small, old to new, themed to traditional....a
very wide choice
- Nightclubs
- offering a wide mix of British and foreign music of any conceivable
genre
- Coffee
shops & Bars - Venues for relaxing
and chatting
- Restaurants
- from Thai to French, Indian to Japanese, Turkish to Mexican,
cuisines from all over the world.
- Snooker
and Pool Clubs
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also showing live sport
- Ten-pin
bowling - at the new Cambridge Leisure Park development
near the railway station
- Cambridge
United Football Club - currently in the Nationwide
Conference
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