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Welcome to Birmingham
Birmingham is the UK's second city and capital of England's industrial Midlands, with a cosmopolitan nightlife and plentiful canalside cafes and restaurants. Birmingham, in fact, has more canals than Venice! Now undergoing a business and building renaissance, the Birmingham skyline looks more like Hong Kong than the typical quiet English town. Birmingham is home to the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Birmingham Royal Ballet, and also to many past and present rock bands including UB40 (the world's most successful reggae band!) and Black Sabbath.
Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer (1841-1904) said:
"I'm here in this immense industrial city where they make excellent knives, scissors, springs, files and goodness knows what else, and, besides these, music too. And how well! It's terrifying how much the people here manage to achieve."
Charming historical houses, like Aston Hall, Soho House, Blakesley Hall and Sarehole Mill - one of the inspirations for the English writer JRR Tolkien - are all within the city. Art can be enjoyed in the Barber Institute, home to one of the country's leading art collections; the world's finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite art can be found in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. The Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is resident at Symphony Hall, while the renowned Birmingham Royal Ballet perform at The Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre. The Alexander Theatre stages opera. The so-called Balti Triangle has more Indian restaurants than Delhi (the Balti is a Birmingham style of curry).
Birmingham is the perfect touring base for the entire region, with Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon, historic Warwick Castle, the Cotswolds and Oxford all within an hour's travel, and a trip to London takes less than two hours by train.
Berlitz is right in the City Centre and offers English and foreign language courses year round and group tuition in July and August.
Special programme: Residential programme in Stratford
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