Leeds Attractions

Book a Leeds hotel and discover the attractions of Yorkshire’s dynamic cosmopolitan powerhouse. It’s no longer exclusively the home of flat caps and whippets; instead you’ll find everything from ruined abbeys to prestigious modern art galleries.

Historic Leeds

You can see costumed knights unseated during jousting bouts at the Royal Armouries’ inventively presented collection of arms and armour. There are guided tours of the idyllic 12th-century Kirkstall Abbey, one of the most peaceful and best preserved Cistercian monastic sites in the UK.

Art and museums in Leeds

Peer through the holes of Henry Moore sculptures at the Leeds Art Gallery, home to the best collection of British 20th-century art outside of London. The Thackray Museum on Beckett Street will have adults wincing and kids mesmerised by its displays of Victorian pre-anaesthetic surgery.

Quirky things to do in Leeds

Train buffs ride 100-year-old steam engines at one of the world’s oldest working lines at Middleton Railway. Leave your Leeds hotel to experience the Amazon rainforest at Tropical World where exotic fish, plants and butterflies compete to catch the eye.

Events in Leeds

The Leeds Shakespeare Festival in July/August holds open-air performances by the British Shakespeare Company in the inspiring setting of Kirkstall Abbey cloisters. The German-themed Christmas Market in Millennium Square attracts oompah-loving visitors eager to swap their parkin for bratwurst and their Tetley for bier in the re-created Frankfurt bierkeller.

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