National Sea Life Centre
At the Sea life Centre you will discover freshwater and seawater fish, on a zigzagging upward journey that takes you from ocean to estuary and from the river to sea. At the top you have a good view of the canals below. And at the bottom of sea, via a lift that takes you there and via a transparent tunnel, you can walk beneath the rays and sharks above.
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Castle
Built on the banks of the Avon on the site of a Norman mound and interior courtyard, which originally were probably a Saxon fort, the castle was the headquarters of the Counts of Warwick. Fine gardens designed by Capability Brown in 1750 have been planted on the hillock, together with gardens by Victorian gardener Robert Marnock. The courtyard walls and guardroom date back to the 14C, the Bear Tower and Clarence Tower from the 15C.
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Barber Institute of Fine Arts
This institute is part of the huge university campus typical of English universities, with its red brick walls but also an extraordinary 100m high bell-tower, named Chamberlain tower. This collection of furniture and other art objects was created with the help of money bequeathed by Lady Barber (1933) and includes works from Italy, (Bellini, Huardi.) Flanders, (Bruegel le Jeune, Rubens..) England, (Gainsborough, Turner..) and France (Poussin, Watteau and the impressionists).
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Museum of British Road Transport
Coventry was the birthplace of the British car industry - with Daimler in 1896 - and subsequently home to over 100 manufacturers (Daimler, Rover, Riley, Lea & Francis, Hillman, Triumph, etc.). The Museum of British Road Transport illustrates the industry, its growth and decline in the present century. The oldest models (Riley 1908, Morris 1922) are attractively presented in an authentic street scene but the latest technological progress is also on show.
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