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!