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Attractions in London!

Sherlock Holmes Museum.

• Museum of Sherlock Holmes (eng. The Sherlock Holmes Museum) - London house-Museum of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, the literary character created by sir Arthur Conan Doyle. According to the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and his friend doctor Watson lived in the apartment at Baker street 221b (221b, Baker street in the period from 1881 to 1904. During the writing of these works such address in London did not exist. Subsequently, during the extension Baker street to the North (where in the end of XIX century there was a street called Upper Baker Street), this number was among rooms with 215 229 assigned to the building of the Abbey National building society (eng. Abbey National). For this reason, for many years Abbey National was forced to introduce the position of the special Secretary for processing of a pile of letters and other correspondence, constantly coming at Baker street 221b the name of Sherlock Holmes. When creating the Museum was specially registered firm «221b Baker Street», in order to be able to legally hang on to the «house of Sherlock Holmes», the real number of which 239, the appropriate sign. Subsequently, however, the house yet received an official address 221b, Baker Street, London, NW1 6XE, and correspondence began to flow directly to the Museum

Westminster Abbey.

• The collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster, almost always called Westminster Abbey - Gothic Church in Westminster, London, West of the Palace of Westminster. Built intermittently from 1245 by 1745 years, but the shape saves Gothic. The traditional place of coronation and burial of the monarchs of great Britain. Along with the nearby Church of St. Margaret Abbey if the number of Edward the Confessor founded the Benedictine Abbey in 1065 on this place, overlooking the square of the Parliament. Presumably, the first English king to be crowned here was Harold, in January 1066. Crush him at the battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror was crowned here in the same year, and the first record in the Abbey witnessed it. The tradition of the coronation of preserved to our times. Early English Gothic structure of the building of the Abbey in a greater degree is obliged to Henry III, than any other rulers, although many architects, including K. Rena, contributed to the appearance of the Abbey. In the beginning of the Central galleries are the icons made Russian icon painter Sergei Fedora but to the world heritage

Tower of London.

• The collegiate Church of St. Peter at Westminster, almost always called Westminster Abbey - Gothic Church in Westminster, London, West of the Palace of Westminster. Built intermittently from 1245 by 1745 years, but the shape saves Gothic. The traditional place of coronation and burial of the monarchs of great Britain. Along with the nearby Church of St. Margaret Abbey known to the world heritage . Base the tower of London is attributed to Wilhelm I. After the Norman conquest of England, William I began to erect defensive castles to intimidate conquered the Anglo-Saxons. One of the biggest in 1078 became tower. Wooden Fort replaced the huge stone building - the Great tower, which is a rectangular structure, size 32 x 36 meters, the height of about 30 metres. Later when the new king of England ordered to whitewash building, it was called the White tower (White Tower), or the White tower. Later, when king Richard the Lionheart, were built several towers of different height and two rows of powerful fortress walls. Around the fortress was dug a deep ditch, which makes it one of the most impregnable fortresses in Europe

Big Ben.

• Big Ben is the name of the largest of the six bells of the Palace of Westminster in London, often this name is attributed to the watch and clock tower in General, which since September 2012 is officially called the «tower of Elizabeth». There are two theories regarding the origin of this name. According to the first, the most difficult at that moment the bell of 13.7 tons - got its name big Ben (Big Ben) in honor of the engineer and politician sir Benjamin Hall (English)Russian, who headed the casting of a bell. According to another, big Ben was named after Benjamin count (English)Russian, extremely popular in the 1850s, the boxer in the heavyweight division.

History Museum.

• The Museum of natural science (eng. Natural History Museum is one of the three largest museums located on the street Exhibition Road in South Kensington. The collection includes more than 70 million items on botany (6 million plants), Zoology (55 million copies animals, half of which are insects in the Department of entomology), Mineralogy (500 thousand stones and minerals) and paleontology (9 million remains).снову collection is a collection of Dr. Hans Sloane (1660-1753), which includes herbarium and skeletons of animals and humans, originally exhibited in Montagu house (Bloomsbury); they knew at that time the British Museum. In the 1850s, Professor R. Owen, Director of the British Museum of natural history) has put a question on expansion of the meeting and the need of its own premises. In 1864 under the Museum had bought a plot of land in Kensington. Architectural project was developed Francis Фоуком and after his death elaborated Alfred Уотерхаузом. The facade is of Romano-Byzantine style. Construction was started in 1873 and ended in 1880-m Museum was opened in 1881; in 1963 he finally separated himself from the British Museum. Up to 1992 it was called 'British Museum (Natural History), and in the scientific literature was known under the abbreviation B.M.(N.H.) or BMNH

The Globe.

• This topic, see the globe (disambiguation). Globe Theatre. The building, recreated in 1997, outside view Name of the theatre «Globes». The Globe [Theatre]), as a rule, is associated with one of the three theatres in London: The original globe theatre, built in 1599 on the means of actors Lord Chamberlain's Men, of which Shakespeare, and the destruction by fire on June 29 1613. Globe theatre, which was rebuilt in June 1614 (when Shakespeare had already left London in Stratford) and existed until 1642 Modern (reconstituted by the descriptions and found during the excavation of the remains of the Foundation) building of the globe theatre was opened in 1997. This building was restored at a distance of about 200 meters from the theatre's original location site. In the theater until 1642, the troupe played the «Servant of the Lord Chamberlain, headed by tragedian Richard Burbage. Here were first delivered many of the works of Shakespeare.