Liverpool: from the docks to the Beatles

The Royal Albert Dock, a complex of Victorian warehouses in red brick, a UNESCO heritage site, today houses museums, galleries and restaurants overlooking the Mersey River.

Just steps away, the Cavern Club, rebuilt on the site of the original venue where the Beatles performed almost three hundred times in their early days, still offers live music every evening.

Continuing on, one visits the Beatles Museum, which traces the group's career through instruments, stage costumes and original recordings.

Toward evening, the Three Graces, the three historic buildings facing the dock, close the day with their silhouette illuminated against the Mersey sky.

The original Cavern Club was demolished in the seventies for metro construction, and the current venue, rebuilt a few meters away using part of the original bricks, nevertheless maintains the name and atmosphere.

The Royal Albert Dock risked total demolition in the seventies before a recovery project transformed it into one of the city's main cultural hubs.