Oxford City

Oxford, Dorothy Leigh Sayers’ birthplace, is a small village of England of 151.000 inhabitants very famous around the world. There, the rivers Cherwell and Thames run through Oxford and meet near the city centre. River Thames is well-known because is the home of the annual rowing race called The University Boat Race in which participates the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club in late March or early April, on the Championship Course from Putney to Mortlake in the west of London
Dorothy lived for years in 1 Brewer Street, where there is a plaque commemorating her living there. Near there is the Christ Church where here father, Henry Sayers, was the Headmaster.
Sayers studied in the University of Oxford and she spent her happiest teen days there. This University is the oldest one in the English-speaking world and it is also regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions inviting academics to go there from all over the world. That place inspired her to write “Gaudy Night”, one of the best stories of Lord Peter Wimsey developed in the city of Oxford. But she was not the only one who wrote books based on Oxford; other authors have chosen this city as the scene of their works like Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy, A Question of Upbringing (1951 ) by Anthony Powell and lately Oxford Murders (2008) by Alex de la Iglesia and Jorge Guerricaechevarría.
Another place to visit in Oxford is the city Centre, an extraordinary sight for tourists, and an attractive location for the consumer to visit, as well as being a good location for socializing. The Shopping centre and surrounding area (The West End) contains many major shops like Marks & Spencer and many other important shops.
The last of the three most important attractions in Oxford is Blackwells Bookshop, which claims the largest single room devoted to book sales in the whole Europe, the cavernous Norrington Room (10,000 Sq Foot).