Beautiful place to visit ,in the main hall here you definitely feel the harry Potter thing going on , many great people have studied here so really worth a visit as it's right in the city centre.
This is one of the not so busy colleges in Oxford, but also the most beautiful one.
Entire campus is absolutely beautiful sculpture. You don't need to know much about histories behind it to experience this beautiful campus. Gardens are amazingly well arranged. Staffs are friendly too.
Welcoming college to visit with a wonderful feel. The architecture is representative of what I hoped to see in Oxford.
Definitely the finest college in Oxford. Not that I'm biased.
Well done removing the old white men from the dining hall and replacing them with diverse groups of women.
Amazing architecture and sad I couldn't go in the grounds
Only 2 pounds to enter, well worth it. It is small but beautiful, with a hall and cathedral.
Visited a couple of times, not very big but quite interesting.
Very worth visiting. We didn't do the Raiders. When we passed by, we came in. I didn't expect that there would be heaven and earth. Very quiet, aristocratic, a great place to study.
Nice building, but only outside just one room to see
Yeap the new buildings at Balliol College ar just amazing!
From what little I could see of Balliol I liked it in general. Large and shady gardens. The dining room is not as large as that of Chris Church College, but it is a pleasant visit.
Magnificent university whose visit is restricted to a few spaces. It has large green areas and admirable buildings.
Balliol College is one of the universities that constitute the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. One of the oldest universities in Oxford, it was founded around 1263 by John I of Balliol.
Five Nobel laureates and numerous literary and philosophical figures have studied there.
It is claimed that Balliol is the oldest university in Oxford.
A must visit while in Oxford, you will find resemblance of Harry Porter's dining hall. I learnt that most (if not all) colleges have similar halls.
It is open to tourists from 10: 00-17: 00, and there is a map at the entrance payment office. It is currently the oldest college in Oxford. There are currently about 800 graduate students.
Stunning architecture and well maintained gardens there is also a tiny hidden garden accessories through a maze
One of the most liberal college in Oxford. Sometimes the hall is open to public. Food is average but fantastic environment.
The University of Oxford is the 2nd oldest university in the world, spanning almost a millennia. It consists of individual colleges that form the university but each self-governing and separate. One of the oldest is Balliol College. Balliol has a large beautiful garden outside to enjoy the sun.
My guide proclaims loudly that the Great Hall of Hogwarts and the Dining Hall at Balliol College as one and the same with one exception: there's no floating candles.
Speaking of Bariol College, it seems like Masako was studying abroad. Established in 1263.
It's one of the oldest college in Oxford. Its very green with follower blooming !!
A smallish, although well worth a visit, Oxford college. On weekdays you can get a quite reasonably price lunch at the Hall.
From the street, Balliol College is incredibly beautiful.
Stayed for two nights and it was amazing experience.
Beautiful college, yet you are unlikely to see much of it if you do not go here as they do not let the public in much of it. They wanted to use the hall here for the main dining hall in Harry Potter, but the college did not let them use the space so they instead had to use Christ college hall.
Unquestionably the best college in Oxford. Since this statement requires no further elaboration, let me instead use this review to post a delightful story about Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893), the legendary tutor and master of Balliol (taken from W. S. Walsh's Handy-book of Literary Curiosities):
"Professor Jowett is one of the lions of Oxford. That town is subjected to constant inroads of tourists, all of whom crave a sight of the famous professor. It so happened, while he was engaged on his translation of Plato, that a guide discovered the professor s study-window looked into the Broad Street. Coming with his menagerie, the guide would begin: 'This, ladies and gentlemen, is Balliol College, one of the very holdest in the huniversity, and famous for the herudition of its scholars. The head of Balliol College is called the Master. The present Master of Balliol is the celebrated Professor Benjamin Jowett, Regius Professor of Greek. Those are Professor Jowett s study-windows, and there (here the ruffian would stoop down, take up a handful of gravel and throw it against the pain, bringing poor Jowett, livid with fury, to the window) ladies and gentlemen, is Professor Benjamin Jowett himself.
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