Liverpool

Liverpool was Europe's Port to the Americas.

It is one of the famous cities of England, a thriving city with many museums. We visited it on 3 March (2018) for two days.

Things to do/see

March 2018 Pier Head Waterfront (Unesco)
March 2018 Albert Dock
March 2018 Walker art gallery (the largest national museum collection outside of London)
March 2018 Chinatown.
Liverpool library.
Penny lane
Cruising the Mersey
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

These are some pictures from our March (2018) visit.

Elena with a map of the Pier Head.
The Albert docks.
A brick heritage of the maritime and industrial might of England.
One of the highlight of British tourism, although we found it to be very quiet and peaceful.
Liverpool's Englican cathedral.
The monumental interior.
The Outraged Christ (by Lutyens).
Julia in the transept.
The Bombed Out Church, a testimony of the 1941 Liverpool blitz.
Exploring the Word museum.
A look of British India in Williamson square.
At the maritime museum.
At the slavery museum.
Walking the streets.
Liverpool remained overall a beautiful city.
With stunning buildings.
At the Walker Art Gallery.
With Rodin's sculptures and famous masterpieces (here Bonaparte crossing the Alps) scattered in the corridors.
One of the family by Cotman, acquired by the curator to give great pleasure to the numerous visitors of the Gallery who are uninitiated in the higher forms of art, to great success to this day!
Liverpool from Egremont.
A room of the Walker gallery.
The temptation of Christ, while mankind sleeps (in an allegory to the agony in the garden).
Hilliard's portrait of Elizabeth I, the last Tudor. She seems to be looking at the even more famous portrait of her father.
The section of modern art.
Cataract-3, dizzying to stare at.
Julia slowly awakening.
Back in the street.
Saint Georges' Hall steps, up.
and down!
Prince Albert facing the North Western Hall.
Renshaw street.
The nearby concert street.
China town, one of the oldest and largest in Europe.