United Kingdom - Stratford-Upon-Avon

Hans-Werner from Germany - United Kingdom - 07.10.2010

Stratford-Upon-Avon - Shakespeare's Town. Top left: Holy Trinity Church. Bottom left: Hall's Croft. Top centre: Shakespeare's Birthplace. Bottom centre: Anne Hathaway's Cottage. Top right: Harvard House. Bottom right: Nash's House. 

Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, 35 km south east of Birmingham and 13 km south west of Warwick. 

The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world. The Royal Shakespeare Company resides in Stratford's Royal Shakespeare Theatre, one of Britain's most important cultural venues.