1. PLACES OF INTEREST
LONDON

2. LONDON

3. The Tower Bridge

4. The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways
Construction started in 1886 and took eight years
The bridge opens so that ships can pass through

5. The Tower of London

6. is a historic castle
The Tower has served variously as an armoury, a treasury, a menagerie, the Royal Mint, a public records office, and the home of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
Now it is a museum

7. Houses of Parliament

8. Palace of Westminster, as it is also known – has occupied the same spot since 1016
The oldest surviving part of the building is Westminster Hall 
Big Ben is the name of the bell and the clock there sets the exact time time

9. The Buckingham Palace

10. the official London residence of the British monarch - located in the City of Westminster
It became the principal royal residence in 1837, on the accession of Queen Victoria
It is also famous for changing the guards

11. The London Eye

12. a giant 135-metre tall Ferris wheel situated on the banks of the River Thames
the tallest Ferris wheel in Europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3.5 million people annually
There are 32 capsules which never stop

13. The City Hall

14. the headquarters of the Greater London Authority which is the Mayor of London and London Assembly
It was opened in July 2002

15. The Trafalgar Square

16. At its centre there is the Nelson's Column, which is guarded by four lion statues
It is used as a location for political demonstrations
The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars
There is also the National Gallery

17. The Piccadilly Circus

18. It is particularly known for its video display and neon signs
It is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End
There is also the memorial fountain and statue of an archer popularly known as Eros

19. The Globe Theatre

20. is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays
Each year the theatre season runs from April to October with productions of the work by Shakespeare and modern authors, and plays to an audience of 350,000 who experience the ‘wooden O’

21. The Harrods

22. The store occupies a 20,000 m2 site and has over 90,000 m2 of selling space in over 330 departments
The Royal family do their shopping there
one of the five owners was Mohamed
Al-Fayed

23. The Wembley Stadium

24. a football stadium
the 90,000 capacity venue is the second largest stadium in Europe, and serves as England's national stadium
It is the home of the England national football team
The new image dates to 2007

25. The National Gallery

26. It houses the national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries
It is on show 361 days a year, free of charge
You can find it on the Trafalgar square

27. The Saint Paul‘s Cathedral

28. the seat of the Bishop of London
it dates from the 17th century and was designed by Sir Christopher Wren
The Royal Family holds most of its important marriages, christenings and funerals at Westminster Abbey, but St Paul's was used for the marriage of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer

29. The Westminster Abbey

30. has been the coronation church since 1066 and is the final resting place of seventeen monarchs
is also the place where some of the most significant people in the nation's history are buried or commemorated e.g. The Poets‘ Corner)

31. The Tate Gallery

32. houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art
It is a network of four art museums
The gallery was founded in 1897
it was renamed the Tate Gallery after Henry Tate, who had laid the foundations for the collection

33. The Millenium Dome

34. It was originally used for a major exhibition celebrating the beginning of the third millennium
it is now a key exterior feature of The O2
The Prime Meridian passes the western edge of the Dome

35. The Greenwich Observatory The Prime Meridian

36. is best known as the location of the prime meridian
The fuondation stone was laid in 1675 by King Charles II
The scientific work of the observatory was relocated elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century, and the Greenwich site is now a tourist attraction

37. The Victoria Kew Gardens

38. The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants
the herbarium, which is the one of the largest in the world, has over 7 million preserved plant specimens
The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants