Cambridge is a picturesque university city on the River Cam. It is most famous for the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209. Cambridge has numerous narrow streets that are filled with bicycles. The highlights of a visit to Cambridge are the Gothic choir and chapel of King's College and the lush river scenery of 'the Backs'. The world's first soccer game was played at Parker's Piece in Cambridge.
There are several intersting sites in Cambridge, including its Norman Romanesque cathedral. The city offers some good museums as well, the largest of which is the Fitzwilliam Museum. It was opened in 1816 and moved to its current location in 1848. It houses five different collections: Antiquities, Applied Arts, Coins and Medals, Manuscripts and Printed Books and Paintings, Drawings and Prints. It is a member of the so-called University of Cambridge Museums that also include the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Polar Museum, the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, the Museum of Classical Archaeology, the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and the University Museum of Zoology. Other museums in Cambridge include the social history Museum of Cambridge, the Centre for Computing History and the Cambridge Museum of Technology.
Accommodation and restaurants are available in town. Cambridge is 85 km north of London.
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