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An ancient and long settled town, Norwich has always been the leading city in East Anglia since Saxon times. Its skyline is beautifully decorated by spires and towers of the more than 30 medieval churches that lie within the bounderies of the city. Standing strongly with its exquisit cloisters is the great cathedral, the finest of them all. Built in 1096, it suffered some restoration during the reign of Edward I. In the 14th century its choir was rebuilt in Early English style and Perpendicular vaults added in the 15th and early 16th century. There are almost 400 superb bosses on the vaulted ceiling depicting good, evil and the lives of Christ, Mary and the Saints.

Norwich's castle dates from the 12th century and its museum houses some of the beautiful work by the Norwich School of landscape painters of the early 19th century and the American Memorial Library.

The market place, after its 900 years, still remains as the focus of the town and is one of the largest open-air markets in the whole of Britain. It is located between the St Peter Mancroft church and the Guildhall.

A formidable collection of modern, ancient, classical, medieval and ethnographic art can be found at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, which is an important modern building in its own right.

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