Overview   
  
Vital and pulsating, Birmingham is a stylish cosmopolitan with a robust cultural atmosphere that can easily enchant and entrance visitors.  There is no more dominating scenery of appalling, crammed and dilapidated industrial quarters that the city was so frequently associated with in the past.  Instead, Birmingham now thrives with nationally acclaimed museums and many brilliant historic sites which have been revived to do away with its former dreadful reputation. 

The entertainment scene is first rate with the city's ample provision of theaters, operas, popular nightclubs and spectator sports.  Gourmand will be delighted by the plenitude of specialist restaurants, and shoppers will definitely fall in love with Birmingham's richly endowed shopping options.  The "Brummies" as the locals call themselves are the fun-loving and cheerful bunch by nature, and you can't possibly go wrong in a place with such a contagious passion for la dolce vita.