Stoke-on-Trent has been an international centre of design and excellence for centuries. It is a continually changing city, which is culturally vibrant, surprising and creative.

Stoke-on-Trent is affectionately known as The Potteries and as you might expect from a city that is the UK's centre of ceramics there is a host of world famous names to visit such as Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Spode, Portmeirion and Moorcroft.

Come and meet the craftsmen who produce some of the finest china in the world at the award-winning Wedgwood Visitor Centre, where you can have a go at making your own unique souvenir of your visit. You can shop for bargains too in Stoke-on-Trent's thirty or more factory shops, see the world's finest collection of Staffordshire ceramics at The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, and experience the only complete Victorian pottery factory at Gladstone Pottery Museum.

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Stoke-on-Trent has several outstanding garden attractions, including the most exciting garden and parkland restoration project in the UK, Trentham. Visit the Ialian gardens, the 70 specialist retail outlets, the garden centre with its luxury lifestyle products or walk amongst 140 Barbary Macaques at the Trentham Monkey Forest.