Brighton And Hove: Holiday Apartments Between Coast and Culture

Culture and History

Brighton & Hove Museums operates five venues in the city: the Royal Pavilion, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Preston Manor, Hove Museum of Creativity and Booth Museum of Natural History. Hove Museum of Creativity offers family-friendly galleries focusing on memories and creative activities. Brighton Museum & Art Gallery presents galleries on fashion and style, twentieth-century art and design, and fine art.

Brighton Toy and Model Museum is located in early Victorian railway arches beneath Brighton station. More than 10,000 exhibits can be seen there, including a rare collection of historic model railways. The Royal Pavilion is a seaside palace and was remodelled by John Nash between 1815 and 1823. The Royal Pavilion & Garden combines Regency splendour with Indian architecture and Chinese-inspired interiors.

Preston Manor is the only historic country house in Brighton. The visitor experience conveys both the social life of the upper classes in 1912 and the lives of the servants below the representative rooms. In Rottingdean, the Grange Museum has rooms dedicated to Edward Burne-Jones and Rudyard Kipling; the Grange Gallery displays works by contemporary and historic artists in curated exhibitions.

Smaller historic sites are also part of the picture. Rottingdean Windmill is a Grade II listed landmark on Beacon Hill, and the local preservation society regularly opens it to visitors. West Blatchington Windmill displays historic photographs inside the building, as well as a reproduction of John Constable’s 1825 watercolour.

Stages and Events

Brighton Dome combines Indian-inspired domes with Art Deco details and has undergone extensive architectural redevelopment. It hosts music, theatre, dance, comedy, literature, visual art, film and participatory events. In addition, Brighton Festival is held annually as a curated multidisciplinary arts festival in the city and its surrounding area.

Coast and Maritime Sites

Brighton Palace Pier is a 1,722-foot-long Victorian pier on Brighton and Hove’s eight-mile-long coastline. The pier features a fish-and-chips restaurant, food and drink stands, fairground attractions, two arcades and a covered soft-play area. SEA LIFE Brighton is housed in original Victorian architecture and is the world’s oldest operating aquarium.

Volk’s Electric Railway is the world’s oldest operating electric railway and opened in 1883. It carries visitors in historic trains along a route of around one mile on Brighton beach. Brighton i360’s glass viewing pod takes visitors up to 138 metres above the city and offers views across Brighton, the South Downs and the sea.

Brighton Fishing Museum presents the city’s fishing industry and seaside leisure economy through exhibitions on boats and fishing artefacts.

Parks, Cycle Paths and Water Sports

Stanmer Park offers woodland paths and extensive open spaces for picnics and walks across the Downs. Preston Park is the largest urban park in Brighton and is home to the country’s largest municipal rock garden.

Brighton and Hove has an official east-to-west cycle path along the beach, additional traffic-free cycle paths and the BTN BikeShare bicycle rental system. Hove Lagoon Watersports offers lessons and equipment hire for windsurfing, wakeboarding, sailing, kayaking and stand-up paddleboarding.

Food and Craft

Brighton Gin offers behind-the-scenes tours of the distillery with tastings and hands-on insights into the production line. At Brighton Gin School, participants can develop their own gin recipe, distil their own gin, and design and seal a bottle with a wax seal.

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Further Destinations

Other places in the destination area include Hove and Saltdean. The same wider area also includes Hampshire, Medway, Oxfordshire, Milton Keynes, Windsor And Maidenhead and Slough.

For the wider travel overview: South East England.