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St Paul's Cathedral.
Fifth cathedral to be built on the site. The weddings of the Prince
and Princess of Wales, the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill and many
other occasions have graced this spiritual centre. Built of Portland
stone with a Dome that rises to 365 feet and with Great Paul, the
largest bell in England, this has to be one of THE MUST SEE sights
in London. Open from: Mon-Sat 8:30am-4pm. Tel: 0207 236 4128. More Piccadilly Circus - during the weekend this place is absolutely packed with people. Nightlife is in abundance here, especially with nightclubs like the Hippodrome, MGM Cinema, local pubs and bars, people trying to draw your picture and the Trocadero centre. Inside the Trocadero is Segaworld the world`s largest indoor theme park, spanning seven floors and offering you all kinds of 21st Century games. Rock and pop music are the subject of an exciting exhibition created by Madame Tussauds - Rock Circus- in the old London Pailion. Most of the waxen rock legends appear closely accompanied by their hits. Queuing is likely and if you do not like the buzz of the crowds aoid this area completely. picture Within strolling distance of Trafalgar Square stands the Royal Society of Art, one of London's hidden architectural treasures. The House was designed especially for the Society by Robert Adam in the early 1770s. Today the Georgian façade conceals many unexpected delights of both contemporary as well as traditional architecture including a series of intriguing interconnecting subterranean aults. The Library features a particularly interesting Adam ceiling incorporating panels by the school of Angelica Kaufman. The Great Room is famous for the renowned allegorical series of paintings by James Barry entitled `The Progress of Human Knowledge`. The House is now open to the public for free on the first Sunday of every month (except January). For pre-booked groups catering can be arranged. The South Bank - in 1951, the South Bank Exhibition, held on derelict land south of the Thames, formed the centrepiece of the nationwide `Festial of Britain`, an attempt to reie postwar morale by celebrating the centenary of the Great Exhibition (when Britain really did rule over half the world). The most striking features of the site were the ferris wheel, the saucer-shaped Dome of Discovery and the cigar-shaped Skylon tower. The great success of the festial proided the impetus for the eventual creation of the South Bank Centre, though this has singularly failed to capture the imagination of the public in the same way. Instead, the South Bank has become London`s much unloed culture bunker. On the plus side, the South Bank is currently under inspired artistic direction and stands ery much at the heart of the capital`s arts scene. The nearest tube is Waterloo. Shakespeare's Globe Theatre - the biggest crowds currently to be found along Bankside are milling around this place, a spectacular reconstruction of the polygonal playhouse where most of the Bard`s later works were first performed. The original site of the Globe, marked by a blackened plaque on a brewery wall on Park Street, lies beneath a listed Georgian terrace. The theatre, which boasts the first thatched roof in London since the Great Fire, uses only natural light and the minimum of scenery, and currently puts on shows from mid-May to mid-September. Also on site are a restaurant, cafe, cinema and, ineitably, a shop selling lots of Bard merchandise. Form more information please call: 0207 902 1500. Trafalgar Square - where the statue of Admiral Lord Nelson dominates the square 167 feet aboe it. Built to commemorate his naal ictory in 1805 it is a central piece of this magnificent area. Trafalgar Square laid out around 1830 is a popular enue for political rallies and used to be a home ground for thousands of pigeons. Recent ruling in banning of the pigeon food sellers to be there is going to certainly clean that patch of London of health hazards and of its long history of feeding them and taking photos with them. Each year people from all parts of London concentrate there to celebrate New Year but it looks as if that is also going dvisappear as unruly behaior and pollution of noise is endangering this occasion. Four majestic bronze lions, each 20 feet long and 11 feet high guard the base of column and the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields dating from 1721 makes it popular destination for tourists to come and see it all. Tower Bridge - one of the most famous landmarks in London and just over a hundred years old, the Tower Bridge with its twin drawbridges, or bascules, each weighing about 1,000 tons have beven raised more then half a million times since it was built. It takes only 90 seconds for the bascules to be raised with electric motors which replaced the old steam engines. From Tower Bridge you can view HMS Belfast, an 11,500-ton cruiser that opened the bombardment of the Normandy coast on D-Day. The closest tube stations for those two are, Tower Hill and London Bridge. Open from: daily 10am-6:30pm; No-March 10am-5: More... |
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