About Birmingham
A transformed and modernized Birmingham, also recognized as 'The City of 1,001 Trades,' is home to a population of more than a million residents, in the heart of England surrounded by attractive English countryside. With a wide variety of quality tourist activities and significant improvements scattered through the city centre, it is finally shaking off its insalubrious image as a cultural wasteland.
Birmingham boasts numerous theatres, two cathedrals, a zoo, museums, shops, galleries, restaurants and bars, but is more widely known as home of Cadbury's World, Bourneville, and The National Sea Life Centre in Brindleyplace. The city's historical interests include that of the old canal system, developed late in the 18th century, and the wide variety of factories still in place from the Industrial Revolution. |
