The most photographed stretch of waterfront in northern England. The Pier Head is dominated by the Three Graces — the Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building — three monumental early-20th-century structures that together form one of the great civic ensembles in Britain. They are the architectural face of Liverpool's days as the second city of the British Empire.
The promenade runs along the Mersey from the Pier Head south to the Albert Dock. Statues of Billy Fury, the Beatles and an Edward VII equestrian dot the route. The Mersey Ferry terminal is here too — the iconic Snowdrop and Royal Iris ferries still cross to Birkenhead and Seacombe, and the 50-minute round trip is a Liverpool classic.