Where to stay and what to do in Newcastle: hotels, attractions, day trips and city break ideas.
Northumberland's much-loved dark sky observatory has opened a new observatory and planetarium at the Twice Brewed Inn, bringing its stargazing to Hadrian's Wall country.
From Zurbarán masterpieces to a 500-year-old Bible, The Auckland Project has turned the Prince Bishops' palace and its town into one of the North East's richest days out.
Once the scene of Lord Byron's wedding, Seaham Hall on the County Durham coast is marking 25 years as one of the UK's most celebrated five-star hotel and spa destinations.
The Armstrong family's clifftop fortress on the Northumberland coast is preparing a brand-new Christmas experience, designed by Charlotte Lloyd Webber, from 14 November.
Twenty-five years after its Grand Cascade first flowed, the Duchess of Northumberland's bold garden in Alnwick is still surprising visitors with poisons, cherry blossom and a giant treehouse.
Half a century after Sir John Betjeman reopened Rowley Station, Beamish, The Living Museum of the North, is celebrating the building that started its collection of relocated landmarks.
The Roman fort famous for its handwritten tablets has won its first VisitEngland Gold Award, a fitting honour for a charity that started with a garden shed and £21.
The Blackett family's Jacobean-style country house near Hadrian's Wall has a reimagined championship course, a new golf academy open to everyone and a spa on the way.
Four decades after Durham Castle and Cathedral joined UNESCO's list, the Norman masterpiece on the River Wear has opened a new Cuthbert Centre for Pilgrimage and Prayer.
Cut off twice a day by the tide, Lindisfarne rewards visitors with a priory, a castle, grey seals and some of the most atmospheric walking on the Northumberland coast.