A free museum with a stuffed polar bear, free botanical gardens and more green space per person than most British cities.

A free museum in a Victorian mansion, three good parks and a hill with a tower on it. All within reach of one of the finest station frontages in Britain.

A hilltop park with a domed folly you can see for miles, a free city museum and a castle that was a working prison until 2011.

Two free museums, a Victorian park with a boating lake, and a transporter bridge that carries cars across the Tees in a gondola.