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The sights of London

London

• Big Ben
• The Houses of Parliament
• The Tower Bridge
• Buckingham Palace
• Trafalgar Square
• The National Gallery
• Piccadilly Circus
• Oxford Street and other famous streets
• Bloomsbury Square
• St. Paul's Cathedral
• Westminster Abbey

• The London Eye
• The London Zoo
• The Tower of London
• Madam Tussauds
• Hyde Park and other royal parks
• Covent Garden
• The British Museum

London

London is the capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. More than 8 million people live there. London was founded on the Thames by the Romans about 2 thousand years ago. The city is divided into 3 main parts: The West End (famous for its parks, theatres and shops) The City (a business and political centre) and The East End (an industrial part near the port).

Buckingham Palace

The King of England lives here. They started to build it in 1703. There is the Queen Victoria Memorial in front of it.

Every day at 11:30 tourists watch the Changing the Guards ceremony at Buckingham Palace. They say it’s impossible to make a Royal British Guard laugh. You got to try!!!

Trafalgar square

It’s the centre of London. In the middle of the square a tall column stands. On top there is a monument to Admiral Nelson, who beat Napoleon near the Cape Trafalgar. There are two fountains in front of the National Gallery, one of the best picture galleries in the world.

Big Ben and the houses of Parliament

A long grey building on Parliament Square with towers are the Houses of Parliament also known as the Palace of Westminster. Centuries ago it was a royal palace. The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Big Ben is the name of the clock and the bell inside the clock tower. You can hear it every hour. Big Ben got such a name after Sir Benjamin Hall who was very tall and was in charge of making the bell for the clock tower.

Westminster Abbey

On the other side of Parliament Square is Westminster Abbey. It is a 900-year-old church. There are many statues inside. Many famous poets and writers and also kings and queens were buried there. It is the traditional place of coronation for monarchs. Westminster Abby is easily recognizable by two beautiful towers.

Tower Bridge and London Bridge

Tower Bridge was constructed in 1894. It is a bascule (разводной) bridge over the River Thames. Please, don’t confuse it with neighbouring London Bridge, which was built in 1967 on the place of several former bridges with one common name London Bridge. Until 1749, it was the only bridge over the Thames and it looked very strange. There were houses and shops on the bridge. Now there are more than 20 bridges over the Thames in London.

The Tower of London

The Tower of London was a fortress, a palace, a prison and the King’s Zoo. Now it is a museum. You can see a lot of interesting things in the halls of the White Tower. William the Conqueror built it in the 11 th century to protect himself from the Englishmen who were not happy after he came from France to be the King of England. There are always black ravens in the Tower of London. People take care of them because they believe that London will be rich while ravens live there.

St. Paul’s cathedral

One of the greatest English churches, St. Paul’s Cathedral is not far from The Tower of London. The famous English architect Sir Christopher Wren built it in the 17 th century after the Great Fire (1666). It took him 35 years to build this beautiful building with towers and columns. In one of its towers there is one of the largest bells in the world.

Madame Tussauds

It was founded by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud in the 19 th century. Now it is a huge museum with branches in different cities of Europe, Asia and North America. In the same building there is the Planetarium of London.

Hyde Park

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner. A Speakers' Corner is an area where open-air public speaking, debate and discussion are allowed.

Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens is one of the Royal Parks of London, lying immediately to the west of Hyde Park. The open spaces of Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park and St. James's Park together form a "green lung" in the heart of London.

The Green Park

The Green Park is a park in central London, one of the Royal Parks of London. It lies between Hyde Park and St. James's Park.

St. James's Park

St. James's Park is the oldest of the Royal Parks of London .

The Regent’s park

The Regent's Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. It contains Regent's College and the London Zoo.

London Zoo

London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It was opened in London on 27 April 1828. Today it houses a collection of 755 species of animals.

The British museum

The British Museum was founded in 1753. It has a collection of items from the Ancient Egypt, Greece and Europe. It has also a huge library with a reading hall. The Museum is situated near Bloomsbury Square, which was formed more than 300 years ago.

There are many famous streets in London

Oxford street is a well-known shopping centre,

Whitehall is the street that leads from Trafalgar Square to Parliament Square

Downing street, 10 is a house of the British Prime Minister.

Baker street is famous for Sherlock Holmes Museum

Piccadilly circus

Many people think that there is a circus on Piccadilly Circus, but there is no one! Circus means a square where a traffic goes round. There are a lot of other Circuses without circuses in London 

Transport Of London

• London Heathrow Airport

• London red double-deckers

• London taxi

• London Underground

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is a district of The West End in London and also a famous Royal Opera Theatre known since 1946.

The London Eye

It is one of the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe (135 meters), and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people annually. There are 32 capsules. Each capsule can hold 25 people. Each round takes 30 minutes. If you are on top you can see the surroundings on 40 kilometers round.