jueves, 9 de diciembre de 2010

Arch of Wellington

The Arch of Wellington, also known as Arch of the Constitution or (originally) Green Park's Arch, is an arch of the victory placed to the south of Hyde Park in the center of London. The arch, together with the Marble Arch, was projected in 1825 by Jorge IV to commemorate the British victories in the Napoleonic Wars. The Arch of Wellington was conceived in turn as Constitution Hill's exterior puerta and therefore a great entry to the center of London from the west.
Houses of Parliament

The Palace of Westminster is the place in which there meet both chambers of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (the Chamber of the Lores and the Chamber of the Common ones). The palace, which is A Heritage of the Humanity named by the UNESCO from 1987, is placed in the north shore of the river Thames, in the city of Westminster, in London, near other governmental buildings in Whitehall. Also he has other Castles as places of interest.
Windsor Castle

Windsor Castle, in Windsor in the English county of Berkshire, is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conquero, is the oldest in continuous occupation. The castle's floor area is about 45,000 square metres.
Together with Buckingham Palace in London and Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, it is one of the three principal official residences of the British monarch. Queen Elizabeth II spends many weekends in the year at the castle, using it for both state and private entertaining. Her other two residences, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle, are the Royal Family's private homes.
London eye

The London Eye (Eye of London), also known as Millennium Wheel (Wheel of the Millenium), finished in 1999 and opened the public in March, 2000, was the major treadmill - viewing-point of the world up to the opening of Nanchang's Star in May, 2006, and the later Singapore Flyer in 2008. The London Eye Jubilee Gardens reaches a height of 135 m on the western end of, in the South Bank of the Thames, Lambeth's London district, between the bridges of Westminster and Hungerford
Tower Bridge

The Bridge of the Tower, in English Tower Bridge, is a drawbridge placed in London that crosses the Rio Thames. It places near the Tower of London, which gives his name. Often it is called erroneously A Bridge of London, which is the following placed bridge upstream. The bridge is supported by Bridge House Estates, a non-profit-making company under the guardianship of Corporation of London.
Big Ben

Big Ben is the name with which it is known to the Great bell of Westminster, the major one of the bells that think in the Tower of the Clock that they form a part of the Great Clock of Westminster of the Palace of Westminster, located in the city London. Though this name corresponds to him to the great bell, popularly also there is applied he to the Tower of the Clock in his set. The tower is in the corner northwest of the building that shelters the headquarters of both Chambers of the British Parliament. The Big Ben was constructed in the year 1858.