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Peterborough combines the best elements of past and present with a prefect blend of thousands of years of visitors enhanced by a wealth of new facilities.  

The present Norman cathedral has dominated the city for over 750 years. Magnificent in its architecture, sad in its royalty and monastic in its atmosphere. The West Front is acclaimed as one of the finest in Europe, and the medieval painted ceiling is unique, it is the burial place of Queen Catherine of Aragon Henry VIII’s first wife, and was for a while. Mary Queen of Scots 

Although a 'New City’, Peterborough has remarkably retained much of its cultural heritage. The city has been carefully and tastefully redeveloped to ensure that the new blends with the past Whilst the extensive modem shopping complexes of Queensgate and Rivergate are attractions in their own right they have not resulted in the destruction of the buildings of their old market town. The old streets of Peterborough: Bridge Street. Long Causeway and Church Street meeting in Cathedral Square can be shopped. largely in pedestrianised comfort

Visitors will be surprised at the enormous number of attractions in this new city; appealing to all ages and interests. Flag Fen, described as one of the most exciting finds of the century, is one of the few ongoing excavations open to the public. See archaeologists gradually uncovering a large 3,000 year old bronze age timber platform. 

Steam enthusiasts can travel back in time on the Nene Valley Steam Railway from Wansford through Nene Park — a 2,000 acre expanse of lakes, woodlands and watermeadows — to Peterborough. For the lovers of historic buildings, you can choose to visit Longthorpe Tower with its medieval wall paintings, enjoy the grace of Burghley House, the finest grandest example of an Elizabethan stately home or Elton Hall, the home of the Proby family since 1660. All this and more. 

Nowhere can the evolution of Peterborough into its current form be better see than a visit to the City museum with its modem, detailed and interesting galleries showing how life has changed from the time of the dinosaurs to the modem day.