The three tallest skyscrapers
as of 2008 in Canary Wharf
as viewed from Cabot
Square. It is home to such
companies as HSBC and
Clifford Chance
City of London skyline, Middle:
Houses of Parliament, Bottom
left: Tower Bridge, Bottom
right: Tower of London.
Westminster Abbey is one of
London's oldest and most
important buildings and a
World Heritage Site.
The City of London is
the world's largest
financial centre It is
home to the London
Stock Exchange and
Lloyds of London.
Hampton Court Palace is a royal palace in the
London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in
south west London; it has not been lived in by
the British royal family since the 18th
century. The palace is located 11.7 miles
(18.8 km) south west of Charing Cross and
upstream of Central London on the River
Thames. It was originally built for Cardinal
Wolsey, a favourite of King Henry VIII, circa
1514; in 1529, as Wolsey fell from favour, the
palace was passed to the King, who enlarged
it.
The following century, William
III's massive rebuilding and
expansion project intended to
rival Versailles was
begun.Work halted in 1694,
leaving the palace in two
distinct contrasting
architectural styles, domestic
Tudor and Baroque. While the
palace's styles are an accident
of fate, a unity exists due to
the use of pink bricks and an,
albeit vague, symmetrical
balancing of successive low
wings.
Today, the palace is
open to the public,
and is a major
tourist attraction.
The palace's Home
Park is the site of
the annual
Hampton Court
Palace Festival and
Hampton Court
Palace Flower
Show. Along with
St. James's Palace,
it is one of only two
surviving palaces
out of the many
owned by Henry
VIII.
Westminster is an area of
Central London, within the
City of Westminster. It lies
on the north bank of the
River Thames, southwest
of the City of London and
0.5 miles (0.8 km)
southwest of Charing
Cross.
It has a
large
concentratio
n of
London's
historic and
prestigious
landmarks
and visitor
attractions,
including
Buckingham
Palace,
Westminster
Abbey and
much of the
West End of
London.
Historically a part of Middlesex,
the name Westminster was the
ancient description for the area
around Westminster Abbeythe
West Minster, or monastery
church, that gave the area its
namewhich had been the seat of
the government of England for
almost a thousand years. Since its
construction in the mid-19th
century, Westminster has been
location of the Palace of
Westminster, a UNESCO World
Heritage Site which houses the
Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Madame Tussauds in New
York City
New Washington, D.C. location
Madame Tussauds is a
famous wax museum in
London with branches in
a number of major
cities.
The wax sculpture of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Sculptures of the Beatles, London
Sculpture of Shakespeare, London
is a major tourist
attraction located in
Central London.
London
for recreating famous people,
or celebrities, in wax.
It is the original Madame
Tussauds attraction
having been situated on
Marylebone Road since 1884.
The wax sculpture of
Andy Lau ( ),
Hong Kong.
It was set up by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. It is
operated by Merlin Entertainments.
Sculpture of The Queen Mother,
London.
British Museum
Established
Location
1753
Great Russell Street, London
WC1, England
Collection size
7 million objects
Museum area
588,000 sq ft (54,600 m2) in
94 Galleries
Visitor figures
6,049,000 (20072008)
Director
Nearest tube station(s)
Neil MacGregor
Holborn, Tottenham Court
Road, Russell Square
is a museum of human
history and culture
situated in London. Its
collections, which
number more than 7
million objects, are
amongst the largest and
most comprehensive in
the world and originate
from all continents,
illustrating and
documenting the story of
human culture from its
beginning to the present.
Great Court - Quadrangle
and Robert Smirke's
Round Reading Room
Panorama of the circular
Reading Room
The British Museum was
established in 1700, largely
based on the collections of the
physician and scientist Sir Hans
Sloane. The museum first opened
to the public on 15 January 1759
in Montagu House in
The British
Bloomsbury, on the site of the
Museum, Great
current museum building. Its
Court
expansion over the following two
and a half centuries has resulted
in the creation of several branch
institutions, the first being the
British Museum of Natural
History in South Kensington in
1887.
African Garden - The
British Museum
Facade
Until 1997, when the current
British Library building
opened to the public,
replacing the old British
Museum Reading Room, the
British Museum was unique in
that it housed both a national
museum of antiquities and a
national library in the same
building.
The Cyrus Cylinder .
The entrance to the
museum
Room 83 - Roman Sculpture
Room 4 - Colossal
Amenhotep III
Room 21 - Mausoleum
of Halikarnassos
St Paul's dome
Building information
Basic information
Previous
Cathedrals
Dates built
1677
Year consecrated
1708
Architect(s)
Christopher Wren
Architectural
style
English Baroque
Length
158m
Width across
transepts
75m
Location
City of London
Width (nave)
37m
Full name
Cathedral
Church of Paul
the Apostle
Height (max)
108m
Towers
Domes
Country
England
Ecclesiastical information
Denomination
Church of
England
Dome height
(external)
99m
Province
Canterbury
65m
Diocese
London
Dome height
(internal)
Anglican
cathedral
on
Ludgate
Hill, in the
City of
London,
and the
seat of the
Bishop of
London.
The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned to
be London's fifth St Paul's Cathedral, although the number is higher if every
major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral.
The clock tower on the west
end of the cathedral
Interior of St. Paul's,
looking towards the east.
Looking up at the
dome of St. Paul's.
Great West Door.
West end clock tower
