Lieux à visiter
Here is a list of places you might like to visit while staying at our Cambridge serviced apartment.
Cambridge Market
The appropriately named "Market Square" hosts an open air market every day and offers a variety of traders selling fruit, vegetables, clothes and other goods. There has been a market on this site in the centre of Cambridge for at least 700 years and is only 20 minutes from the apartment, on foot. Directions can be found at Google Maps.
Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum in central Cambridge has a collection of paintings, antiquities, ceramics and armour spanning centuries and civilisations.
More information on the Fitzwilliam Museum can be found at http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/.
Fitzwilliam Museum is located on Trumpington Street (CB2 1RB), and is a 20 minute walk from the apartment. For directions on how to get there, see the directions on Google Maps.
Kings College
Kings College (formally known as "The Kings College of Our Lady and St. Nicholas in Cambridge) was founded in 1441 by King Henry VI, Originally, the college was to be specifically for boys from Eton College. It was not until 1865 that the first non-Etonian undergraduates arrived to study at King's, and the first fellow to have not attended Eton was elected in 1873. The connection with Eton is now weak, but a scholarship to attend the college, exclusively available to students from Eton, is still awarded each year.
The College Chapel was built over a period of a hundred years (14461531) in three stages and is a good example of late Gothic architecture, The Chapel features the painting "The Adoration of the Magi" by Rubens as well as the world's largest fan vault and stained glass windows.
The Chapel is actively used as a place of worship and also holds concerts and college events. The world-famous Chapel choir consists of choral scholars (male students from the college) and choristers (boys educated at the nearby King's College School). During term-time the choir sings services on most days, and also performs concerts and makes recordings and broadcasts. For many decades it has broadcast its Nine Lessons and Carols on the BBC from the Chapel on Christmas Eve. Additionally, King's Voices (a mixed-voice Chapel choir of male and female students) sing evensong on Mondays during term-time.
Cambridge City Council uses the Chapel in its logo due to it being widely regarded as a symbol of the City of Cambridge.
More information about Kings College can be found at http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/, and more information about King College Chapel can be found at http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/.
The College and Chapel is a 25 minute walk from the apartment, situated on Kings Parade. For directions on how to get to the college, see the directions here on Google Maps.
American Military Cemetery & Memorial
The American Cemetery contains the remains of 3812 of the military dead within its 30.5 acres and 5127 names are recorded on the Tablets of the Missing. The American cemetery is situated 3 miles west of Cambridge on the A1303, a short taxi ride from the apartment.
More information about the American Military Cemetary & Memorial can be found at http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ca.php.
The cemetery is a 15 minute car journey from the apartment. For directions on how to get to the cemetery by car, see Google Maps.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden holds over 10,000 labeled plant species in its beautifully landscaped 40 acres. Attractions include rock garden, lake, glasshouse, winter garden, woodland walk and nine national collections.
More information about the Cambridge University Botanic Garden can be found at http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/.
The entrance to the gardens is located at the far end of Bateman Street, and can be found less than a mile to the south of the city centre, and only 12 minutes from the apartment. For directions on how to get to the apartment see Google Maps.
Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions about places to visit during your stay.
