Things to do in Nottingham today and this weekend

See the castle on its sandstone rock and the Council House dome over Old Market Square, have a drink at Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem, tour the City of Caves, and walk through the deer park at Wollaton Hall. The page lists what is on at each next.

The page lists what is on today, tomorrow and this weekend, from the Royal Concert Hall and Motorpoint Arena to gigs at Rock City and Rescue Rooms, and shows at the Playhouse and Theatre Royal. Use the filters for free events or the evening.

Stay indoors at the castle and its caves, the City of Caves, the National Justice Museum, Nottingham Contemporary or the Natural History Museum in Wollaton Hall. Broadway and Lakeside Arts show films. The rainy-day page lists them with what is on next.

Nottingham Contemporary has free entry (book a slot online or at reception). Entry to the Winter Wonderland in Old Market Square is free, with the attractions ticketed, and Light Night, a free event in early February, lights up the city centre. The free page lists the events of the next 30 days that cost nothing.

Yes: the castle and its caves, the Lace Market galleries, Wollaton Hall's deer park and a night out at Rock City or the theatres fit into a weekend. The Robin Hood story and the Goose Fair give it a character of its own.

The castle has a Robin Hood adventure area, and children aged 15 and under go free at Wollaton Hall, where the Natural History Museum and the deer park are, up to three per paying adult. Lakeside Arts and the Playhouse put on family and children's shows, and Goose Fair is in autumn.

Rock City and its neighbour Rescue Rooms for rock and other alternative music, the Motorpoint Arena for the big tours, and the Royal Concert Hall for concerts of all kinds. The bars and venues of Hockley and the Lace Market have live music almost any night.

Goose Fair is held at the Forest Recreation Ground for ten days, usually from the last weekend of September into the first week of October. The council announces each year's dates in spring, and the page's year strip shows them as soon as they are published.

Nottingham Winter Wonderland, with the Christmas Market, usually opens in mid-November in Old Market Square and runs to 31 December, closed on Christmas Day. Entry is free and the ice rink and observation wheel are ticketed. The page's year strip shows the dates of the coming edition.

Not the Norman one: the castle was replaced by a ducal mansion built in 1674 to 1679, which is now a museum and art gallery, and its tours go into the caves under Castle Rock. The mansion was burnt in 1831 and turned into a museum in 1876 to 1878.

The pub claims to have been founded in 1189, but no documents support that date. The standing building is mostly 17th century, and it stands against Castle Rock with rooms cut into the caves.