Come evening relax; take your pick of restaurants across the region, from chic bistro to Michelin-starred. Throughout the region theatres dazzle with West End shows, hot new drama and the Royal Shakespeare Company season at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal. Musically the scene ranges from international orchestras at The Sage Gateshead to rock bands, with a full score of folk, blues and jazz in between. 

A city of world-class culture

From its award-winning European waterfront to its historic roots, it is easy to see why NewcastleGateshead has gained a reputation as one of the most creative cities in the world. 

Spanning the banks of the famous River Tyne, the award-winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge leads to the groundbreaking BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, an internationally acclaimed art gallery. BALTIC’s neighbour is The Sage Gateshead, a stunning £70 million music centre from acclaimed British architect Sir Norman Foster and his team. The centre has fantastic unrivalled facilities for music of all genres.

NewcastleGateshead is a rare mix of the old and the new. Sir John Betjeman described the graceful curve and Georgian architecture of Newcastle’s Grey Street as finer than London’s Regent Street and few places outside the capital have as many historic listed buildings.

Britain’s largest and most impressive sculpture, Gateshead’s Angel of the North, weighs in at 208 tonnes and has a wingspan of 54m. Recently voted one of the eight Wonders of Britain, the sculpture has become one of the most viewed pieces of public art in the world, seen by more than one person every second. A short drive away Sunderland’s National Glass Centre stocks a huge range of work by some of Britain and Europe’s finest contemporary glassmakers or visit 1,500 of the world’s most exotic flowers, plants and tree’s and the Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.