Visiting UNESCO Creative Cities Networks in the UK

UNESCO Creative Cities Networks

Get ready for an artistic extravaganza as we explore the creative hubs of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network!

Like a cultural treasure map, UNESCO highlights seven creative fields overflowing in each city. By spotlighting these creative centers, the Network stimulates cooperation and idea-sharing across cultures worldwide. As we embark on this journey prepare to be immersed in the sights, sounds, flavors, and rhythms of cities where creativity takes center stage!

How many will the City Adventurers explore?

Latest Visits

Nottingham:-

Lord Byron

D.H. Lawrence

The heritage trail - UK Cities of Literature part 1 and Literature part 2

UNESCO Creative Cities Network

Get ready for an artistic extravaganza as we explore the creative hubs of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network!

Like a cultural treasure map, UNESCO highlights seven creative fields overflowing in each city. By spotlighting these creative centers, the Network stimulates cooperation and idea-sharing across cultures worldwide. As we embark on this journey prepare to be immersed in the sights, sounds, flavors, and rhythms of cities where creativity takes center stage!

How many will the City Adventurers explore?

UK Cities of Literature

Edinburgh, Scotland (2004) - Edinburgh is the world’s first UNESCO City of Literature.

It is the birthplace and home to world-famous writers, poets and playwrights including Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes), Walter Scott (Waverley), and JK Rowling (Harry Potter). It has its own Poet Laureate, the Edinburgh Makar.

The Edinburgh International Book Festival is the world’s largest literary festival of its kind, lasting for two weeks each August.

Norwich, England (2012)

The city’s literary heritage includes the first book to be published in English by a woman: Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian of Norwich in the fourteenth century which still resonates to this day.

Nottingham, England (2015)

Nottingham boasts a rich history of illustrious literary figures residing within its walls, such as Lord Byron, D.H. Lawrence, Stanley Middleton and Alan Sillitoe, to name but a few. We also went on the heritage trail - UK Cities of Literature part 1 and part 2

Manchester, England (2017)

Literature has been a force for change, innovation, openness and collaboration throughout the city's history. It is where Engels and Marx worked together at Chetham's Library and where Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her campaigning novels.

Exeter, England (2019)

As well as having a rich heritage linked with some of the country’s most famous writers, including Agatha Christie, Ted Hughes, Daphne du Maurier and Charles Causley, its 1,000-year-old Cathedral houses The Exeter Book, a 10th century anthology described as ‘the foundation volume of English Literature’.