Manchester has been named the most photogenic city in the UK

Instagrammers, rejoice: Manchester has officially been crowned the most photogenic city in the whole of the U.K.

Made-to-order diamond jewellers Austen & Blake recently launched a campaign to find where in the U.K is the best spot to get married. So, as a part of their extensive research, the jewellers looked at seven individual criteria to determine the result, including the visual appeal of each location.

And, low and behold, Manchester came out on top for its visual appeal, making it officially the most photogenic city in the country.

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Manchester is the most geo-tagged city on Instagram, with approximately 7.1 million tags, far more than other cities such as London and Birmingham, each of which has just 3.7 million tags and 4.2 million tags.

And that wasn’t Manchester’s only succession in the survey; our city was also crowned as the second best city in the U.K. to get married in, falling just behind the capital, London.

Austen & Blakes spokesperson Anthony French said on the findings: “Choosing the location of your wedding can often be one of the most difficult decisions as there are so many other factors that come into play. That is why we worked with a set of seven criteria that we deemed some of the most important factors when choosing a wedding location.

“For many, capturing beautiful images that can be looked back on for years to come is one of the most important aspects of the big day, so it was interesting to find that Manchester was considered the most photogenic city in the U.K, especially above London!”

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This comes just one month on from Manchester being crowned as the third best city in the whole world – back in March, Time Out launched its post-pandemic ‘Time Out Index’ survey, which quizzed 27,000 city-dwellers on the details surrounding their lives.

The magazine wanted to find out which cities had ‘really stepped up and pulled together’ during a year of worldwide pandemic – so it wasn’t just questions about food and culture, but also community projects, green space and sustainability.

So of course our city ranked in the third place – the magazine praised Mancunians for our ‘resilience’ and for having thrived throughout the pandemic, with communities coming together through the toughest of times.

You can see Austen & Blake’s full campaign here.