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The City of Chester boasts the original city walls, a complete circuit
of walls (sections of which date back to Roman times) which ring its
picturesque shopping streets and Norman
Cathedral. The famous Rows, unique two-tiered galleries built in
the traditional black and white style, contain a wide range of shops
selling goods from antiques to high fashion. In fact the city is one
of the top retail centres in the UK and is ideal for weekend breaks.
Attractions include Chester
Zoo, the beautiful River Dee, the Grosvenor
Museum, Cheshire Military Museum, the Rows, a Roman Amphitheatre,
the beautiful Grosvenor Park and the city’s famous Roodee Racecourse.
Take a trip on the open top tour buses to get a feel of what this 2000
year old city has to offer, a top European Heritage Site. New archaeological
excavations are planned at the Roman Amphitheatre - the largest stone-built
arena of its kind in Britain - with finds being put on show in a new
exhibition at the nearby Chester Visitor Centre. The building offers
one of the best views of the site from its top-floor gallery. Receive
the latest news and a medieval welcome from the Chester Town Criers
by visiting The Cross, where the four main streets of the Roman fortress
still intersect, this has been the site of public proclamations since
medieval times, and remains so today. However if you are from over the
border in Wales you need to take care when visiting Chester for a weekend
break as an ancient proclamatiom from Henry 1V has never been repealed
and "all manner of Welsh persons or Welsh sympathies should be
expelled from the City; that no Welshman should enter the City before
sunrise or tarry in it after sunset, under pain of decapitation".
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