Liverpool

Liverpool – a city located on the west coast of northern England, about 340 km from London, on the northern bank of the River Mersey estuary. The headquarters of the county of Merseyside. Counts about 500 thousand inhabitants.

It is the second center after London port of Great Britain and one of the most important of such centers in the history (thanks to the slave trade, and trade and passenger communications with America). It is also an important industrial center (Depth fuel industry, automobile and electronics) and the cultural and scientific.

Inseparably associated with the Liverpool team of The Beatles, which in this city was created, developed and gave his first concerts (in The Cavern Club).

Liverpool is an important node rail, road and air (John Lennon Airport), with excellent communication not only with the capital and nearby Manchester, but from the entire northern England and southern Scotland and Wales. With the City of Birkenhead link its two tunnels under the Mersey estuary.