Known since Victorian times as the English Riviera, it obtained worldwide recognition when the four towns became the first urban European and Global Geopark and were admitted to the Global Geoparks Network, assisted by UNESCO,* in September 2007 as the English Riviera Global Geopark. This is the essential guide for exploring the area. It contains all the information you need about places to visit and things to see and do, together with easy-to-use colour maps. So, if you want to watch the guillemot colonies at Berry Head, or take a geological walk at Saltern Cove, or go underground into the prehistoric cave system at Kents Cavern, or simply find out more about the history of the four seaside towns, you need look no further.