So much to enjoy in and around the Walled City Sightseers won't find it hard to discover why the Derrry Visitor & Convention Bureau describe Derry as ' a city to savour'. Touring around our city is a multi-layered experience that takes in all periods of its tumultuous history and its vibrant present.

Ancient and modern sights sit alongside one another in harmony here - you can be sipping a cappuchino in the middle of a 21st century shopping centre, and a few minutes later you can be standing beside a 1595 cannon on ancient ramparts looking over streets and buildings that have survived for centuries. Prosperity and peace have made this compact city one of the most memorable to visit in the British Isles.

Start, as most visitors do, with a stroll along the famous Walls to view the historic cityscape and marvel at the views across the Foyle bridges to Waterside and the landscapes far beyond.

It's a good idea to take an Inner City Guided Walking Tour - historic tour ot perhaps a literary tour with one of the well-informed and good-humoured Tour Guides - the city's history is so complex and its present is so dynamic that it takes a local expert to explain it all entertainingly and answer your questions.

Your tour should take in all the main sights along the one-mile circuit, including the original Gates - Shipquay, Butcher, Bishop and Ferryquay. The Walls are among the best preserved city fortifications in the Western World . They rise to a height of 8m ( 26ft) and in places are 9m (30ft) wide. Completed in 1618 to defend the Plantation city , the walls have never been breached in three major sieges - even during the 105 day siege of 1689 when 7,000 of the 30,000 population died of starvation. 

Why not take in the city on board an open top bus tour.  Top Tours Ireland offer visitors the opportunity to see the city from on high. Not to be missed!

To see the city from a different perspective, take a Taxi Tour. 

In all a wealth of tour options await the visitor and don't forget to call into the Tourist Information Centre for updated tour information.