Birmingham

1. Birmingham is the regional capital of Midlands¹. Although it has no outlet on the seacoast and does not stand on any great river.

2. Birmingham is at the heart of the Britain’s motorway² system. It is long famous as an international business centre. Its enterprises produce motor cars, bicycles and engines for aircraft. Many new buildings appeared during the post-war development, but the best part of the old city was preserved.

3. There is an art gallery and the city's museum. The Science Museum contains the earliest English locomotive. Birmingham's ultra-modern library is one of the largest and best stocked in Europe, it includes the Shakespeare memorial library with 40.000 books in 90 languages. The city possesses several interesting churches and two cathedrals. The multilevel Bull Ring Shopping centre³ includes most kinds of retail shops, open air and covered markets, banks, restaurants and offices.

4. Bull Ring is one of the biggest open-air markets and shopping centres in the United Kingdom. People enjoy shopping there because it has modern shops together with atmosphere of a traditional street market.

5. Birmingham has more canals than Venice. The city possesses twenty swimming pools and eight municipal golf fields, as well as many private clubs.

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