Tourist attractions Saint Albans

This is one of the finest and largest James I style castles in England. It was built by Robert Cecil, who handed the work to Robert Lyminge , the architect of Blicking Hall. Blicking reused bricks from a former castle to build a palace in the tradit..

The Museum of the Air , subsidiary company of the War Museum (Imperial War Museum, in Lambeth) is devoted to the history of aviation and the RAF. It occupies hangars at the Old Hendon aerodrome, the cradle of British aviation where Grahame-White set..

The original abbey was a shrine to St Alban, England's first Christian martyr. The present building, dominated by its Norman tower, was started in 1077 and underwent many alterations. The façade dates from 1879. Interesting features inside include th..

Verulamium was one of the largest cities in Roman Britain. It was founded in AD 49 and rebuilt at least twice, once after being sacked in AD 61 and again in AD 155 after a major fire. The site was excavated in the 1930s and in the 1950s. The museum ..

The building dates back to the end of the 15C; the great hall, with its sculpted enclosure, has changed considerably since it was built. Bulwer-Lytton , fantasy author, transformed it into a gothic masterpiece with cupola; this style can be seen in ..

English Rugby’s national stadium has a museum dedicated to the game, invented at Rugby School in 1846. Visitors can admire a rich collection of shirts, cups and pictures, plus video footage of great matches down the years, before heading down to the ..