Manchester

==Landmarks==
{{main|Architecture of Manchester}}
{{see also|List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester|List of streets and roads in Manchester |Grade I listed buildings in Greater Manchester|Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester|List of public art in Greater Manchester}}
[[File:67 Whitworth Street.jpg|thumb|upright=0.9|Neo-baroque [[Lancaster House, Manchester|Lancaster House]]. Manchester is known for opulent warehouses from the city's textile trade.]]
Manchester's buildings display a variety of architectural styles, ranging from [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] to [[contemporary architecture]]. The widespread use of [[red brick]] characterises the city, much of the architecture of which harks back to its days as a global centre for the cotton trade.<ref name="Hartwell"/> Just outside the immediate city centre are a large number of former [[cotton mill]]s, some of which have been left virtually untouched since their closure, while many have been redeveloped as apartment buildings and office space. [[Manchester Town Hall]], in [[Albert Square, Manchester|Albert Square]], was built in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic revival]] style and is seen as one of the most important Victorian buildings in England.<ref>{{cite book |last=Robinson |first=John Martin |date=1986 |title=The Architecture of Northern England |page=153 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780333373965}}</ref>

Manchester also has a number of [[Tallest Buildings of Manchester|skyscrapers]] built in the 1960s and 1970s, the tallest being the [[CIS Tower]] near [[Manchester Victoria station]] until the [[Beetham Tower, Manchester|Beetham Tower]] was completed in 2006. The latter exemplifies a new surge in high-rise building. It includes a [[Hilton Hotels|Hilton hotel]], a restaurant and apartments. The largest skyscraper is now Deansgate Square South Tower, at 201 metres (659 feet).[[The Green Building]], opposite [[Manchester Oxford Road railway station|Oxford Road station]], is a pioneering eco-friendly housing project, while the recently completed [[One Angel Square]], is one of the most sustainable large buildings in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=One Angel Square, Co-operative Group HQ |url=http://www.breeam.org/page.jsp?id=598 |work=breeam.org |access-date=14 March 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521150355/http://www.breeam.org/page.jsp?id=598 |archive-date=21 May 2013}}</ref>

The award-winning [[Heaton Park]] in the north of the city borough is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe, covering {{convert|610|acre|ha}} of parkland.<ref name="HeatonPark">{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=200073heaton/&documentID=1422 |title=About Heaton Park |access-date=23 November 2007 |publisher=[[Manchester City Council]] |year=2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315081308/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?categoryID=200073heaton%2F&documentID=1422 |archive-date=15 March 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The city has 135 parks, gardens, and open spaces.<ref name="Parks">{{cite web |url=http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200073 |title=Manchester's parks and open spaces |access-date=23 November 2007 |publisher=[[Manchester City Council]] |year=2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012142452/http://www.manchester.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents.php?categoryID=200073 |archive-date=12 October 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Two large squares hold many of Manchester's public monuments. Albert Square has monuments to [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha|Prince Albert]], [[James Fraser (bishop)|Bishop James Fraser]], [[Oliver Heywood]], [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]] and [[John Bright]]. [[Piccadilly Gardens]] has monuments dedicated to [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]], [[Robert Peel]], [[James Watt]] and the [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Duke of Wellington]]. [[Manchester Cenotaph|The cenotaph]] in St Peter's Square is Manchester's main memorial to its war dead. Designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]], it echoes [[the Cenotaph, Whitehall|the original on Whitehall]] in London. The [[Alan Turing Memorial]] in [[Sackville Park]] commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. A larger-than-life statue of [[Abraham Lincoln]] by George Gray Barnard in the eponymous Lincoln Square (having stood for many years in [[Platt Fields]]) was presented to the city by Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of [[Cincinnati]], Ohio, to mark the part Lancashire played in the [[cotton famine]] and [[American Civil War]] of 1861–1865.<ref name="PSGM">{{cite book |last1=Cocks |first1=Harry |last2=Wyke |first2=Terry |title=Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester |url=https://archive.org/details/publicsculptureg00wyke |url-access=limited |series=Public Sculpture of Britain |publisher=Liverpool University Press |location=Liverpool |year=2004 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/publicsculptureg00wyke/page/n30 11]–27, 88–92, 111–121, 123–5, 130–2 |isbn=0-85323-567-8}}</ref> A [[Concorde]] is on display near Manchester Airport.

Manchester has six designated [[local nature reserve]]s: [[Chorlton Water Park]], Blackley Forest, Clayton Vale and Chorlton Ees, Ivy Green, [[Boggart Hole Clough]] and [[Highfield Country Park]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wildaboutmanchester.info/www/index.php/news/3-archive-news/116-local-nature-reserve-status-for-two-new-sites |title= Local nature Reserves |publisher= Manchester City Council |access-date=27 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709132101/http://www.wildaboutmanchester.info/www/index.php/news/3-archive-news/116-local-nature-reserve-status-for-two-new-sites |archive-date=9 July 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>