Car Hire Southampton Airport

For almost 2000 years history the port city of Southampton in southern of England can back look.70 Ad by the Romans as a place named "Clausentum" founded, it had a purely strategic importance due to its exposed location first. After the Norman invasion of 1066, it was renamed Hamwic and the port, the access to the sea for Salisbury, and in the then capital Winchester.

Over the years, Southampton won becoming increasingly important, which continues to this day especially for shipbuilding. Among other things, the Queen Mary was built II here. Southampton is also one of the most important starting points for cruise ships is the world in addition to its relevance for the trade routes across the North Atlantic. Already in 1912, the legendary Titanic ran out on her maiden voyage here.

The historic Altsatdt Vere was almost completely destroyed during World War II. Worth seeing is however also still of God's House Tower from the 15th century, where now the Museum of Achaeology is located. In the Tudor House Museum, a half-timbered building of 1485, one gets an insight into family life to Victorian times.

Since 1990, Southampton will be increasingly interesting as well as for international tourism. This is certainly also to the direct proximity of "new forest adjacent in the West on the town", a large undeveloped area of Heath, woodland and moor, considered unique in the densely populated South of England.

To get an overview of the Southampton region with their highlights, a car should be necessarily.