Places of interest in England

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Places of interest in England

• Katerina 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, Pauls 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 - Englands finest example of decorated
  Gothic architecture

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