Leeds was a major centre for the trading and production of wool and this trading history extends to its fame as a retail mecca to this day.
The recently restored Victorian shopping arcade, ‘Victoria Quarter’, houses local and national boutiques and brands, Kirkgate market is Europe’s largest indoor market and an international ‘street food hub’ and Leeds ‘Corn Exchange’, a Grade 1 listed building, is home to independent local retailers, tasty eateries and regular vintage markets under its domed roof.
Take a guided or self-guided tour around Leeds’s independent food and drink scene; track the city’s Owl emblem all over the city, wander through the ruins of a Cistercian monastery, enjoy contemporary art at Leeds’s ‘The Tetley’ contemporary art gallery in a former brewery and live music day and night from roof top bars across the city.