A city of Winchester is twinned by using Laon in France and the Winchester district is twinned with Gießen in Germany.

Important buildings
Significant historic buildings include Winchester Cathedral, built in the 12th century; a Groovy Hall, the single living part of Winchester Castle; and Winchester College, a public school founded inside 1382.

A Awesome Hall was rebuilt, quondam between 1222-1235, & however lives therein form. These are virtually all swell known for "King Arthur's" Round Table, which has hung in the hall from at least 1463. A table actually dates from either a 14th Century, & in and of itself is non coeval to Arthur. Despite this these are however of considerable historical interest & attracts numerous holidaymaker. A table was originally unpainted, however was painted for King Henry VIII in 1522. A list of the legendary Knights of the Round Table are written around a edge of the table surmounted by King Arthur in his potty.

In a evidence of the Neat Hall come the recreation of the mediaeval garden along by using the Wedding Gates & Law Courts.

Too when a public school, Winchester College, Winchester is home to the big state sixth form college in the country, Peter Symonds College. University of Winchester (erst University College Winchester & prior to that King Alfred's College) is placed in a city, renowned graduates include Martin Bashir, as is the Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton

History

Personal injury settlement in the area dates back to pre-Roman days, & there exists grounds to believe of Iron Age hill forts around a city. Under a Romans a town, so known as Venta Belgarum, was of considerable importance.

A town hwhen historic importance as a capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex from 519. Although it was non a simply town to keep around been a capital, it was established by King Alfred the Great as the independent city around his kingdom inside 827. Winchester remained a capital of Wessex, and so England, until occasionally period when a Norman Conquest when the capital was moved to London. The good fire inside the city in 1141 accelerated its decline.

William of Wykeham (1320-1404) played an important role in the history of the town; when Bishop of Winchester he was responsible for good deal of the todays structure of the cathedral & likewise founded Winchester College.

In the period of a middle ages, the city was an crucial centre of the wool trade, prior to running into a slow decline. St. Swithun was Bishop of Winchester in the mid ninth century.

A notable novelist Jane Austen died in Winchester in 18 July 1817 and is buried in the cathedral.

A ancient Pilgrims' Way begins at Winchester, and diarrhea to Canterbury.

Winchester is besides illustrious for a Royal Hampshire County Hospital, one of the oldest intense hospitals in the area.

Sport
Winchester's association football (soccer) club, called Winchester City F.C., was founded in 1884 and has the motto "Many in Men, One in Spirit".

Further learning

A City Museum placed on the corner of Minster St. & A Square contains extra data on the history of Winchester.