Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Manchester, United Kingdom

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 11 sights
Distance 4.5 km
Ascend 102 m
Descend 113 m

Explore Manchester in United Kingdom with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Manchester

Sight 1: Peterloo Memorial

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The Peterloo Memorial is a memorial in Manchester, England, commemorating the Peterloo Massacre. Designs for the memorial by the artist Jeremy Deller were unveiled in November 2018. It is sited close to the site of the massacre and was unveiled on 14 August 2019. It comprises a series of concentric circular stone steps engraved with the names of the 18 victims and the places the marchers had come from, rising to 6 feet (1.8 m) at the centre. The lack of disabled access to the monument has been criticised.

Wikipedia: Peterloo Memorial (EN)

768 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 2: Bridgewater Hall

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The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England. It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.

Wikipedia: Bridgewater Hall (EN), Website

328 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Canada House

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Canada House Stephen Richards / CC BY-SA 2.0

Canada House is an Art Nouveau-style office building on Chepstow Street in Manchester, England. Constructed originally as a packing warehouse, the building opened in 1909. Designed by local architects W & G Higginbottom, the building has features consistent with art nouveau and has a terracotta exterior.

Wikipedia: Canada House, Manchester (EN)

477 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: The Dancehouse

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The Dancehouse is a dance centre at 10 Oxford Road, Manchester, England. Formerly, the dance house was the Regal Cinema.

Wikipedia: Dancehouse (EN)

337 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: Palace Theatre

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The Palace Theatre is one of the main theatres in Manchester, England. It is situated on Oxford Street, on the north-east corner of the intersection with Whitworth Street. The Palace and its sister theatre the Opera House on Quay Street are operated by the same parent company, Ambassador Theatre Group. The original capacity of 3,675 has been reduced to its current 1,955.

Wikipedia: Palace Theatre, Manchester (EN), Website

424 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 6: Rise up, Women

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Rise up, Women, also known as Our Emmeline, is a bronze sculpture of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter's Square, Manchester. Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom. Hazel Reeves sculpted the figure and designed the Meeting Circle that surrounds it.

Wikipedia: Rise up, Women (Emmeline Pankhurst statue) (EN)

197 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: Manchester Art Gallery

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Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre, England. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three connected buildings, two of which were designed by Sir Charles Barry. Both of Barry's buildings are listed. The building that links them was designed by Hopkins Architects following an architectural design competition managed by RIBA Competitions. It opened in 2002 following a major renovation and expansion project undertaken by the art gallery.

Wikipedia: Manchester Art Gallery (EN), Website

464 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 8: Sackville Gardens

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Sackville Gardens is a public space in Manchester, England. It is bounded by Manchester College's Shena Simon Campus on one side and Whitworth Street, Sackville Street, the Rochdale Canal and Canal Street on the others.

Wikipedia: Sackville Gardens (EN)

5 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Alan Turing Statue

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The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England, is a sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing.

Wikipedia: Alan Turing Memorial (EN)

499 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 10: Victory over Blindness

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Victory over Blindness David Dixon / CC BY-SA 2.0

Victory Over Blindness is a bronze sculpture in Manchester, England, by Johanna Domke-Guyot. It is on Piccadilly Approach outside the main entrance of Manchester Piccadilly station and was commissioned to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.

Wikipedia: Victory Over Blindness (EN)

1007 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 11: Ardwick Green

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Ardwick Green is a public space in Ardwick, Manchester, England. It began as a private park for the residents of houses surrounding it before Manchester acquired it in 1867 and turned it into a public park with an ornamental pond and a bandstand.

Wikipedia: Ardwick Green (EN)

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