places of interest in england kateřina Široká. london
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Places of interest in England
Kateřina Široká
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London
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Houses of Parliament
• Seat of the British parliament
• Big Ben – part of Houses of Parliament
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Buckingham Palace
• Residence of the queen
• Change of the Guard every day, takes 45 minutes
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Tower of London
• Founded by William the Conqueror in 1066-7
• royal palace and fortress, prison and place of execution, mint, arsenal, menagerie and jewel house.
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• Guarded by the Beafeeters
• Their number is 36
• Ravens
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St, Paul‘s Cathedral
• the masterpiece of Sir Christopher Wren.
• Built between 1675 and 1710
• Whispering gallery
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Westminster Abbey
• many kings, queens, poets, writers and other famous inhabitants of the UK are buried there
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Other places
• 8 Royal parks• Maritime Greenwich• Trafalgar square with Nelson Column• National gallery• National Museum• Tower bridge• Museum of wax statues• London Eye• …
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Windsor
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• one of three official residences of The Queen
• the largest inhabited castle in the world and the oldest in continuous occupation
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Oxford• The oldest university in England
• Founded in 13th century
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• One of the highlights of Oxford is the Radcliffe Camera on Radcliffe Square
• designed by James Gibbs in the English Baroque style
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Stonehenge
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• Located on Salisbury plain
• Built aproximately in 4th millenary B.C.
• Calendar? Ritual place? Astronomical clock?
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Winchester
• the most important city in England until the eleventh century
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• Cathedral where kings were crowned
• Castle – the Round Table of king Arthur
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The English Lake District National Park
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• 885 square miles in size
• 1800 miles of footpaths
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Bath
• Built by Romans
• Few kilometres southwards from Bristol
• Gothic cathedral
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Exeter
• One of the liveliest cities in the southwest
• Cathedral - England’s finest example of decorated Gothic architecture
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