Chester Attractions
As a historic but modern city, Chester has many attractions to entice the visitor. You can spend time investigating Chester history by touring Chester Walls, by visiting the Chester Visitor Centre, The Grosvenor Museum or the Dewa Roman Experience. By sight seeing at Chesters Medieval Cathedral and touring Chester Rows the historic shopping streets with their unique double levels of street side shops.
Shopping is one of the Chester attractions particularly well served. As a visitor destination Chester shops cater for all with a wide selection of national and local retailers providing everything from fashion to food. In addition to the fabulous Rows there are two modern shopping centres. The Grosvenor Shopping Centre is embedded within the historic rows and the Forum Shopping Centre gives access to Chester Indoor Market where there are butchers, fishmongers, cheesemongers, fruit and vegetable merchants, clothing and more.
Chester has a vibrant night life with many bars, pubs, restaurants and night clubs. A walk along Watergate Street and it's rows will reveal a number of welcoming bars and restaurants serving a variety of food from around the world. On nearly every street in Chester you will find a different eating establishment to wet your appetite. At present for film entertainnment the only city cinema is the Cineworld cinema on the Greyhound Retail Park on the outskirts or the Vu cinema at Cheshire Oaks on the outskirts of Ellesmere Port.
Visitors can take advantage of number of tour buses that circulate throughout the city. Giving a narrative as they progress. These link up with boats on the river in the Groves where you can take a trip along the River Dee.
One of Chester's main attractions is Chester racecourse. Near the city centre and river on a stretch of land called the Roodee. In addition to the racing callendar there are many annual events hosted on the Racecourse like horse jumping, vintage car ralleys, circuses and firework spectaculars, as there are in and around the streets of the city centre itself. Events like the Roaming the Rows street art project.
On the outskirts of the city lies Chester Zoo. Home to over 7000 animals it is the UK's largest Zoological gardens. A great destination for any weather.
Beyond Chester there are the delights of North Wales, The Cheshire plains, the Wirral and Liverpool and Manchester to explore. Chester lends itself as a great centre for exploring England's North West.
At Ellesmere Port 8miles(13km) from Chester is Cheshire Oaks a large retail outlet. The Boat Museum devoted to the history of the extensive canal network in the area. And Blue Planet Aquarium which features a huge walk through aquarium.
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