If you need a short break or a city
escape from industrial Manchester and Liverpool, Chester is a good choice. Just
within a one-hour train distance, you can step into an ancient place, searching
for an old soul.
My friend once told me that London or
Manchester is an international city where attracts many tourists; however, she
would prefer to live in England’s countryside or a small town—a place more suitable for life. She once visited York and told me that Chester is just like York, offering people a pretty and historical backdrop,
relaxed vibes, easy walking paths for a perfect day out. Therefore, Chester becomes a
must-see in my sightseeing lists. I checked the similarity between the two cities before my visit.
Yes, similar to York, Chester is a city with the footsteps of Roman soldiers and a Viking invasion past. Both York and Chester were originally founded as a fort by the Romans. The small-town life where craftsmen and merchants came to live here and the trading model was gradually created by the fort.
Both the ancient city walls and the main
river meandering along the city (the Ouse River in York; the River Dee
in Chester) have helped to develop the sightseeing models in two cities: strolling through ancient walls and streets and taking cruise tours on the River. In addition,
they both have an over 1000-year-old Cathedral standing up in the city centres and each has a designer outlet and racecourse on the
outskirts.
When it comes to ‘the most’ in the
Britain, according to England’s Heritage Cities (2019), ‘Chester has the most
complete city walls, the oldest racecourse and the largest Roman Amphitheatre
in Britain’; On the other hand, ‘York Minster is one of the world’s most magnificent
cathedrals and, since the 7th century, it has been at the centre of
Christianity in the north of England.’ (York Minster, 2019) They all put efforts to well reserve
medieval architectures to offer you breathtaking views and unforgettable
memories.
At first glance, you might think the
two cities would be similar in a way. In fact, when I visited Chester, I felt a different
atmosphere there, including people, shops, gardens, gardens and trees. I saw a
pigeon house in Chester that I never saw in York; more local people walk on the
city walls in Chester as part of their ordinary paths than York people do.
Although they share some similar
features, the city landscape has shaped and evolved differently by human
activities respectively. Take a walking tour of Chester city centre with a
birdview from the famous Eastgate Clock--
there are more magnificent gothic-style houses that can be seen
in Chester and its black & white buildings stand stylishly on the main
street.
I just participated in a photography workshop last week, in which photographer Simon Palmour introduced the idea of black & white to highlight personal portrait, historical building, the relationship between the city and people. Therefore, today I especially try to apply this idea to photos taken in Chester to present the uniqueness of the city.
如果您需要短暫休息或離開工業曼徹斯特和利物浦，請選擇切斯特。 在一小時的火車距離內，您便可以走進古老的地方，尋找古老的靈魂。
我的朋友曾經告訴我，倫敦或曼徹斯特是一個吸引許多遊客的國際城市，而她寧願住在英格蘭的鄉村或小鎮-一個更適合生活的地方。 她曾經參觀過約克市，並說Chester就像York，在一日遊中為人們提供美麗而歷史的背景，輕鬆的氛圍，輕鬆的步行道。 因此，Chester成為我的觀光名單中必看的景點，在訪問之前，我還查了一下兩個城市之間的相似性。
是的，與約克類似，Chester是一座有著羅馬士兵的足跡和過去維京人入侵的城市。 約克和切斯特最初都是由羅馬人建立了防禦堡壘，當時是小鎮生活的地方，工匠和商人來到這裡生活，從堡壘逐漸建立了貿易模式。
古老的城牆和蜿蜒在市中心的主要河流（約克的烏斯河；切斯特的迪河）都有助於開發兩個城市的觀光模式: 漫步在古老的城牆和街道上，以及乘船遊覽河。此外，他們倆在城市中都有一座擁有1000多年歷史的大教堂，甚至都在郊區設有折扣購物中心和賽馬場。
如果是提到英國之”最”根據英國的《遺產城市》（Heritage Cities，2019），在英國，“切斯特”擁有英國最完整的的古城牆，最古老的賽馬場和英國最大的羅馬露天劇場。在約克，“約克大教堂是世界上最宏偉的大教堂之一，自公元7世紀以來，它一直是英格蘭北部基督教的中心。”（約克大教堂，2019年）它們都保留了中世紀的建築，可提供您獲得無與倫比的景觀和難忘的回憶。
乍看之下，你可能會認為這兩個城市是相似的。實際上，當我去Chester時，我感到那裡的氣氛不同，包括人，商店，花園，甚至樹木。我看到了在York從未見過的鴿子屋。與約克人比較, 我看到更多的當地人把古城牆作為普通道路的一部分在上面行走。
儘管它們具有一些相似的特徵，但城市景觀在人類活動中已塑造和演變地分別不同。在Chester市中心徒步旅行，從Eastgate Clock鳥瞰，在Chester 可以看到更多宏偉的哥特式房屋，其黑白建築有特色地地屹立在主要街道上。
我上周剛參加了一個攝影工作坊，攝影師 Simon Palmour介紹了黑白圖像的概念。 在某些情況下，它可用於突出個人肖像，歷史建築，城市和人物關係。 因此，今天，我特別想應用在Chester 的照片來呈現這座城市的獨特之處。
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