A £4m visitor centre dedicated to Richard III, whose remains were found underneath a Leicester car park, will open on 26 July, it has been announced. The new King Richard III Visitor Centre, on ...

Tickets have gone on sale for the much anticipated King Richard lll Visitor Centre: Dynasty, Death and Discovery in Leicester which will open its doors to the public on 26th July. Britain’s newest ...

Plans for a £4m visitor centre dedicated to Richard III, whose remains were found underneath a Leicester car park, have been unveiled. Work has started to transform the old Leicester Grammar School ...

Bosses at Leicester’s Richard III visitor centre have been urged to reduce their ticket prices to try to increase visitor numbers. Latest accounts filed by the trust, which has run the Peacock Lane ...

With the announcement that Richard III’s long-lost remains – curved spine and all – are to be buried at Leicester Cathedral on March 26, 2015, the UK city is set for another spike in tourist numbers ...

Tourists visiting the Richard III Visitor Centre in Leicester can gaze into the empty grave where the king’s skeleton was discovered in 2012. His actual bones are being reinterred in Leicester ...

The former burial place of Richard III, a medieval monastic site which now lies under a car park in Leicester, has been given protected status. The remains of the 13th century Greyfriars, where the ...

In 2012, the bones of King Richard III were excavated from a parking lot in the city of Leicester, England. For years, historians and academics had searched for his final resting place following his ...

Leicestershire has claimed a hat-trick of national tourism awards, with winners including a historic village pub that once doubled as the local mortuary. The centuries-old venue and two top county ...