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                <title>The Arena</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Tucked in the corner of the city's main family park, the Midlands Arts Centre is a cultural oasis providing art-house films, intimate theatre productions and various creative courses. But by far its quirkiest and most imaginative space is the compact open-air Arena, a miniature concrete mock-up of a classical amphitheatre. Lying dormant for much of the year, it fills to its 470 capacity for the Sounds in the Round summer music festival.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Winterbourne Botanical Gardens</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[These six acres of neatly trimmed Edwardian gardens are a green and fragrant haven worlds apart from the concrete jungle. <br><br>Surrounded by magnolias and alone with your thoughts on the Stream Lawn you'll soon recharge your batteries, or for a real treat venture into the Japanese rock garden, complete with teahouse and ornamental bridge. <br><br>Weekend and evening events range from open-air theatre to candlelight jazz.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Moseley Bog</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA["They do say the trees can actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them in," a hobbit once said. Enclosed by twitching moss and ancient blackened mounds as you duck through the moist undergrowth, it's easy to see how Tolkien drew inspiration from this place. <br><br>Lamenting Birmingham's relentless expansion, he found here an oasis that civilisation passed by, and relaxing quietly beneath a leafy bower, a gnarled trunk twisting above and clasping twigs with its neighbour, you're liable to forget that city life is but a few hundred metres away.]]></description>
                
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