NewcastleGateshead

The cosmopolitan city of NewcastleGateshead was formed when Newcastle and Gateshead joined to become a single visitor destination linked by the River Tyne, the area’s famous bridges and inspired by the Quayside, Newcastle and Gateshead’s iconic destination.

A favourite English city-break destination it really has something for everybody:

• rich in culture, architecture and history
  
• a great reputation for style, shopping and nightlife.
  
• Must sees for visitors include a visit to the sparkling Quayside Newcastle and Gateshead are home to - including the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, the Norman Foster designed music centre The Sage Gateshead and the iconic BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
  
• History is everywhere you look, with the elegant curving Grey Street in Grainger Town, the Castle Keep from where the city takes its name and Blackfriars a former Dominican monastery where you can also see the remains of the medieval city wall.
  
• The famous landmark Tyne Bridge is just one of seven bridges that link Newcastle and Gateshead, the most recent addition being the Gateshead Millennium Bridge which is a striking and innovative opening pedestrian and cycle bridge linking Newcastle to Gateshead Quays which is being transformed into one of the biggest cultural and leisure quarters in the UK - set to rival anywhere in Europe.
  
• Gateshead, on the south bank of the Tyne offers a wealth of shopping, sport and public art, perhaps the most famous being the award winning Angel of the North designed by Antony Gormley and which has proved to be a huge contribution to the tourism Gateshead has seen.