YORK

City Walls

• You can visit city walls.

• They are open every day.

• You can walk along them and see the city.

York Minster

• You can visit the 800-year-old Minster.

• It is the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe.

• In York Minster you can see the famous stained glass windows.

The subjects of these stained glass windows are

different and colourful.

• Outside the Minster is richly decorated.

Living Museum

• In York you can visit a living museum!

• The castle museum has streets with shops from the

nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• You can go shopping and see how much you can buy for 5p.

Yorkshire Museum

• Also you can go to the Yorkshire Museum.

• Here you can find out about York and a thousand years of its history.

• Fantastic new displays show you York in Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Viking and medieval times.

Jorvic Viking Centre

• The most interesting place in York is the Jorvic Viking Centre.

• If you visit this centre, you can see York a thousand years ago when Eric Bloodaxe was king.

• Travel back to AD 975.

• Everything you see and feel is authentic: Viking chickens,

• a Viking sock and ice-skates.

• There you can hear people speak “Viking”…

• And smell the smells of the Viking streets!

Clifford’s Tower

• You can visit Clifford’s Tower – the central part of York castle – in the daytime OR –only for the brave – go on a ghost walk at night and learn about the ghosts of this old city.

National Railway Museum

• If you are interested in technology, you can visit the National Railway Museum, the world’s largest railway museum.

• Here you can know about the first train and how they

worked.

• If you want to know about the trains in future, you can see the newest models of trains.

• You can see Stephenson’s Rocket

• and giant steam engines;

• The Eurostar and computer interactives.

• You can even drive a train yourself!

• Come to York and see everything yourself!