Brighton and Hove is the most enchanting, exciting,
extraordinary seaside city in Britain. With its cosmopolitan air, oodles of
restaurants, feverish nightlife and abundance of culture, the place defies
comparison with anywhere else this side of the English Channel. For centuries it
has been regarded as a ‘pleasure dome’.
The Royal Pavilion is a former royal palace built as a home for the Prince Regent during the early 1800s and is notable for its Indo-Saracenic architecture and Oriental interior design. The building and grounds were purchased by the town in 1849 for £53,000 Other Indo-Saracenic buildings in Brighton include the Sassoon Mausoleum, now, with the bodies reburied elsewhere, in use as a chic supper club.
Brighton Pier
(originally and in full "The Brighton Marine Palace and Pier", and for
long known as the Palace Pier) opened in 1899. It features a funfair, restaurants and arcade halls. .
The West Pier was built in 1866 and has been closed since 1975 awaiting renovation, which faces continual setbacks, The West Pier is one of only two Grade I listed piers in the United Kingdom, but suffered two fires in 2003. Plans for a new landmark in its place – the i360, a 183m (600 ft) observation tower designed by London Eye architects Marks Barfield – were announced in June 2006. Plans were approved by the council on 11 October 2006. As of early 2009, construction had yet to begin, but the area has been cordoned off.
The 11th century St Nicholas Church is the oldest building in Brighton, commonly known as "The Mother Church". Other notable churches include the large brick-built St Bartholomew's, and St Peter's in the heart of Brighton on an island between the Lewes Road and the London Road.
There are four synagogues in the Brighton area, including the
Brighton & Hove Progressive Synagogue (Liberal) at 6 Landsdowne
Road in Hove; Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation at 66 Middle Street Brighton (Orthodox), Hove Hebrew Congregation at 79 Holland Road in Brighton (Orthodox) and Brighton & Hove Reform Synagogue Palmeira Av, Hove (Reformed). Middle Street Synagogue, Brighton
is an important Grade II listed building built in 1874-5, and one of
the most beautiful small synagogues in Europe. It is presently in the
process of being gradually restored by English Heritage.
About 12% of the population of the Brighton & Hove conurbation are
of Jewish ancestry, with a little less than half presently practicing
some form of Judaism, according to a 2007 study by the European Jewish
Press.
Nevertheless, Brighton has become known as one of the least religious places in the UK, based upon analysis of the 2001 census
which revealed that 66,955 people (27 per cent of the population)
profess no religion, almost double the national average of 15 per cent. As part of the Jedi census phenomenon, 2.6 per cent claimed their religion was Jedi Knight.
Beaches
Brighton's Kemp Town beach in summer
The seafront has bars, restaurants, nightclubs and amusement
arcades, principally between the piers. Being less than an hour from
London by train has made the city a popular destination. Brighton beach
has a nudist area (south of the easterly part of Kemptown). Brighton's beach, which is a sand-free shingle beach, although it is sand when you go into the sea, has been awarded a blue flag. The Monarch's Way long-distance footpath heads west along the seafront above the beach.
Since the 1978 demolition of the open-air lido at Black Rock, the
most easterly part of Brighton's seafront, the area has been developed
and now features one of Europe's largest marinas.
However, the site of the pool itself remains empty except for a skate
park and graffiti wall, and further development is planned including a
high-rise hotel which has aroused debate, mirroring proposals for the King Alfred leisure centre in Hove.
In addition, part of the eastern side of the beach has been redeveloped
into a sports complex, which has courts for anything from beach volleyball to ultimate Frisbee, and opened to the public in March 2007.
Brighton Pier, as viewed along the beach from the west
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