FACTS:
In the 18th century was the cotton making capital of the world
Central Manchester has a population of about 440,000 in a greater Metropolitan Area of more than 2 million.
OPINIONS:
Manchester is an innovative music city producing influential groups such as The Smiths, Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and Oasis.
The city was one of the breeding grounds of the industrial resolution and its entrepreneurs and industrial tycoons endowed it
with museums, galleries, theatres, and libraries as well as outstanding civic architecture.