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Around London

This document provides a photographic tour around some of the most famous landmarks and attractions in London, England. It features over 30 pictures with brief captions of places like the British Museum, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St. Paul's Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, the Barbican Art Centre, Madame Tussaud's, the National Gallery, Tower Bridge and more. The photos give a visual overview of the major historical, cultural and architectural sights to see around London.

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Around London

This document provides a photographic tour around some of the most famous landmarks and attractions in London, England. It features over 30 pictures with brief captions of places like the British Museum, Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus, Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St. Paul's Cathedral, 10 Downing Street, the Barbican Art Centre, Madame Tussaud's, the National Gallery, Tower Bridge and more. The photos give a visual overview of the major historical, cultural and architectural sights to see around London.

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AROUND

LONDON

Teacher: Bria Sonia


 British Museum – front view
British Museum- interior
 British Museum- reading room
 British Museum- Assyrian sculpture
 British Museum – Cyrus cilinder
 Is a document issued by the Persian ruler Cyrus the
Great in the form of a clay cylinder inscribed in Akkadian
cuneiform script.The cylinder was created following the
Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when Cyrus
overthrew the Babylonian king Nabonidus and replaced
him as ruler, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
 British Museum- Sculptures
 The Houses of Parliament
 Big-Ben by night and by day
 The clock tower was built at
Westminster in 1288.
 The tower is
designed in
Gothic Revival
style, and is
96.3 metres
high (roughly
16 stories).
 The clock faces
are large
enough to have
once allowed
the Clock Tower
to be the
largest four-
faced clock in
the world.
At the base of each clock face in gilt letters is the Latin inscription:
“DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM “
Which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.
 Piccadilly Circus
 Piccadilly Circus
 Piccadily Circus panorama
 Westminster Abbey
 Is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English.
 Westminster Abbey- the cloister
 Edward’s Coronation Chair
Westminster
Abbey
 The plan of
construction
1894
10 Downing
Street
(Colloquially
known in the
United
Kingdom as
“Number 10”)

 Is the official residence and office of the First Lord of the


Treasury and hence Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom.
 Almost three hundred years old, the building contains
about one hundred rooms.
 The Barbican Art Centre- interior
 The Barbican Art Centre- outside
 The Buckingham Palace
 Trafalgar Square
 Trafalgar Square by night- the fountains
 Trafalgar Square at Christmas
 Trafalgar Square from 1908 to 2009
St. Paul’s Cathedral
 St. Paul’s Cathedral- the interior
 St. Paul’s Cathedral- The Dome
Cathedral's organ
 The Cathedral seen from above
 St. Paul’s Cathedral- picturesque
 The statue of St. Paul
 Madame Tussaud’s -wax museum
 W. Churchill -Tussaud’s first wax sculpture
Wax figures
The National Gallery
 The National Gallery- by night
 Next is the church St. Martin in the Fields
Caravaggio- The boy peeling fruits

Michelangelo- Mona Lisa


Rubens Rembrandt
Tower Bridge
 One of the towers seen from the bridge
 The Tower Bridge open
 The Tower Bridge seen from above

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