London
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Table of contents Introduction The map of London Big Ben House of Parliament Westminster Abbey Westminster Cathedral Buckingham Palace The Queen of Great Britain St.James Park Trafalgar Square National Gallery

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Covent Garden Piccadilly Circus British Museum St.Paul’s Cathedral Tower of London Tower Bridge Globe Theatre Tate Gallery Harrods Victoria & Albert Museum Hard Rock Cafe Madame Tussaud’s Regent’s Park River Thames

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London is the British capital and one of the biggest cities in the world.

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London is situated upon both banks of the River Thames, it is the largest city in Britain and one of the largest in the world. Its population is about 7 million people.

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Big Ben Big Ben, the big clock tower, is the symbol of London. It strikes hours.

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House of Parliament The Houses of Parliament, also known as the Palace of Westminster, are home to the House of Commons and the House of Lords and the famous clock tower Big Ben.

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Westminster Abbey This is a holy place. All English kings have been crowned and buried in the church since 1308.

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Westminster Cathedral It was built between 1895 and 1903. This is the seat of the Cardinal Archbishop and the leading Roman Catholic Church in England. Its bell tower is 84 metres high.

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Buckingham Palace This is the Queen’s home. It was built in 1703. There is a great collection of paintings .

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The Queen of Great Britain The Queen of Great Britain is Elizabeth II. Her husband is Duke of Edinburgh. They have got 4 grown-up children: Prince Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward.

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St.James Park

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St.James Park St. James's Park is a 23 hectare park in the City of Westminster, central London - the oldest of the Royal Parks of London.

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Trafalgar Square There are always a lot of people on the square. Every winter there is a big Christmas tree which is a gift from Norway in the middle of the square. On New Year’s Eve people gather around the tree. In the middle of the square there is Admiral Nelson’s Column.

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Trafalgar Square

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National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century .

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Covent Garden

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Piccadilly Circus Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly.

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The British Museum is the largest and richest of its kind in the world. The present building was built in 1852.

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British Museum

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This collection is so vast that only a very small percentage of it is on show to the public.

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St.Paul’s Cathedral St.Paul’s Cathedral is a famous building too. Prince Charles and Princess Diana married here in 1981.

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Tower of London

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Tower The Tower of London has been a fortress, a palace, an arsenal, a mint, a prison, an observatory, a zoo, the home of the Crown Jewels and a tourist attraction.

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Tower Bridge

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Globe Theatre The original Globe Theatre was built in 1599 by the playing company to which Shakespeare belonged.

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Tate Gallery London is very rich in museums and art galleries. If you are fond of painting you'll go to the Tate Gallery .

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A rich sugar manufacturer Henry Tate founded it in 1897.

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There are about 300 oils and 19000 watercolours and drawings

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Harrods Harrods is an upmarket department store located in Brompton Road in Brompton , in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London.

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The opulent Egyptian-style clothing department at Harrods, London. Many places in the store's interior have an Ancient Egyptian theme. Food products at Harrods

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Victoria & Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.

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Victoria & Albert Museum Raphael — St Paul Preaching in Athens

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Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of theme restaurants founded in 1971 by Americans Peter Morton & Isaac Tigrett in London.

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Madame Tussaud’s Madame Tussaud’s is a wax museum in London with branches in a number of major cities.

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Regent’s Park Regent's Park is one of the Royal Parks of London. It is in the north-western part of central London, partly in the City of Westminster and partly in the London Borough of Camden.[1] It contains Regent's College and the London Zoo.

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River Thames Thames flows through London. The River Thames is 338 km long. It is 245 m wide here. Even big seaships can visit London.