Les meilleurs hôtels à Leicester

Lovely Leicestershire is set in England's heart, neatly divided in half by the Soar River. The county is dominated by Leicester, one of the 10 largest cities in England and Leicestershire's administrative center. The town's two universities, especially Leicester University, host 20,000 students every year. Such a preponderance of kids means a lot of the places college kids like to go -- pubs, clubs and restaurants. Leicester is particularly known for authentic Indian restaurants, but the city's large Asian population (the largest of any European city) guarantees good Asian food around every corner, too. In recent years, Leicester has championed urban regeneration, renovating the city center, expanding green spaces and hosting other environmental programs which earned the city the honor of being named Britain's first Environment City. The Environment City project has bought Leicester international recognition, and the project was honored at the Rio Earth Summit as one of the top twelve worldwide environmental initiatives. The British passion for football (soccer to you Yanks) and rugby is amply sated in Leicestershire respectively with the Leicester City Football Club and the Leicester Football Club Limited, whose team is known as the Tigers for the brown and yellow stripes which once decorated the team jerseys. More indoorsy types will note that the first virtual reality machine was invented by Leicester firm Virtuality. Another Leicestershire town of note is the university town of Loughborough, nestled between Leicester and Nottingham. Loughborough is mostly known for the Great Central Stream railway, a venerable railway which has been running a steam service between Loughborough and the north of Leicester for over 100 years.