Visit Liverpool in 2 days and follow in the footsteps of The Beatles

🔊🎧Before starting, I would like to share the playlist that was with me when I was writing this post in case you want to listen to their music 🎧🔊

OK! You have decided to tour Liverpool, so once you arrive in the city, it’s like stepping into one of its constantly spinning discotheques. Every corner, every street and every bar is brimming with Beatle history. Making the whole city vibrate with the energy of the four young people who changed music forever.

The Beatles Story at Royal Albert Dock

Our route begins with a mandatory stop: The Beatles Story, the most extensive museum in the world of the band. A walk through the event rooms is like entering Abbey Road without ever leaving Liverpool. Every object, every photograph and every guitar will remind you that the Beatles were not just a group, but rather a cultural phenomenon that defined generations. Discover original memorandums and reconstructions of The Cavern Club, Abbey Road Studios or even the yellow submarine. Incredible, right?

📍Location: Royal Albert Dock

Magical Mystery Tour

On the spot you can also take the Magical Mystery Tour, an official 2-hour tourist bus that will take you through the most iconic and famous locations used by the band, such as their childhood homes, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, all of the schools where they studied... Always accompanied by an expert guide who doesn’t answer any questions they don’t know the answer to, and, of course, the best background music! The Beatles!

📍 Location: Royal Albert Dock

The Cavern Club and Matthew Street

We continue our route passing through Matthew Street, a street full of statues, plaques and bars that keep the memory of the Liverpool quartet alive. Here you can take photos with the same rock and roll band... mind you in bronze! It is a one-ton sculpture, slightly larger than life-size, by the British sculptor Android Edwards. The work represents the moment they were photographed in 1963.

📍 Location: Matthew Street

Next, we have to head for the legendary The Cavern Club, the pub where they played for the first time on March 21, 1961 and up to 300 more times. Today, this pub (which was demolished, was rebuilt in much the same way) presents about 40 live tribute bands every week, both tribute bands and originals, and still retains the underground, wet and high-energy ambience of back then. Here you can enjoy a couple of pints and listen to live music. Don’t miss it!

📍Location: Pier Head

Liverpool Beatles Museum

The same area is also home to another of the must-see museums for any fan: Liverpool Beatles Museum. A space on three floors with more than a thousand original items that tell the story of the company: from the battery they used in the beginning to the medals that John Lennon took on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's or the iconic white cello at Blue Jay Way. Without a shadow of a doubt, a place where every showcase contains a bit of history.

📍Location: 23 Matthew Street

The Casbah Coffee Club

To end the day with a visit to this iconic rock and roll club, which not only saw the Beatles grow and also had its walls painted by them! It was at the request of the owner, who needed the club painted before it opened (which, coincidentally, they did it). The Casbah Coffee Club had a room in the basement and it was there that the band performed for the first time as The Beatles, having been previously known as The Quarrymen.

📍Location: Hallman's Green 8

Penny Lane , the street that has become a song

The second day sees the places that inspired some of the quartet's most iconic songs. The first stop will be Penny Lane. The area, immortalized in one of the songs of the same name, shows in the videoclip scenes from legendary shops such as the barbershop, the refuge in the roundabout or the bank on the corner. In addition, you can see the famous street sign covered with thousands of fan signatures.

📍 Location: Penny Lane

The houses of John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Another mandatory stops is a visit to the houses of the group leaders: that of John Lennon in Mendips and Paul McCartney in 20 Forthlin Road. Open to the public and managed by the National Trust, both houses represent the childhood musicians still have many of the objects and decoration from that period. Tour the rooms and discover the place where it all began. A guide will accompany you during the visit and tell you stories about his childhood and his first compositions. Reservation is essential.

📍Location: 271 Menlove Ave

Strawberry Fields (Woolton) , a dream location

We then continue on to Strawberry Fields, an old orphanage managed by the Salvation Airport. The building was demolished, but you can still walk through the gardens. The red railings, tall trees and melancholic air help understand the inspiration behind John Lennon and the song ' Strawberry Fields Forever'. There is also an interactive exhibition that tells the history of the estate, the childhood of John Lennon and the recording of the song. By the way! Sometimes the piano that Lennon used to compose "Imagine" can be found on display. 

📍Location: Beaconsfield 16