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 It includes not one, but 20 towers. The oldest of them — the White Tower which disappears the XI century and William the Conqueror's times. Today.

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3  It includes not one, but 20 towers. The oldest of them — the White Tower which disappears the XI century and William the Conqueror's times. Today many tourists visit the Tower of London, prisons attracted with its bad reputation. The Tower is known as storage of royal jewelry. Today they can be seen in the new jeweler house. Among them a crown of mother Queen Elizabeth which contains the well-known Indian diamond.

4  The Tower has been many things: a palace, a fortress, a prison, a palace of execution, a Zoo. In the past the Tower of London served both as a palace and as a state prison, but it is a museum today.

5  Yeoman Warders, often called "Beefeaters", have been at the Tower of London since the 14th. century. Today they give guided tours of the Tower.

6 The Tower of London is made of stone and mortar, its sidewalks are paved with brick and stone, but in the way and under rocks flowed innumerable rivers of blood spilled by many historically known prisoners spent the last days of his life in the walls of the Tower. The appearance of ghosts in the Tower began in the middle of XIII century, and many of these ghosts are members of the royal family. Ghosts of princes, kings wives, countesses, children and many others see, feel or hear for centuries guard the Tower of London and its visitors

7 The most ancient part of the Tower of London is the so-called White Tower, which was completed in 1097. This main tower has long been the highest structure in London (more than twenty-seven meters). The wall thickness of more than four and a half meters. The tower was whitewashed during the reign of Henry III, which gives the facade and tower now familiar white. Since then, she became known as the White Tower.

8 Everyone is familiar with the fact that at the Tower of London specifically contain a group of ravens. According to legend, if the ravens ever leave the Tower, the British Crown and the British kingdom will fall.

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