THE BEST PLACES TO VISIT

LONDON

INDEX

SAINT PAUL’S CATHEDRAL.

LONDON EYE.

HYDE PARK.

TOWER BRIDGE.

PICADILLY CIRCUS.

Saint Paul’s Cathedral.

The St Paul’s Cathedral is located at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest part of the City of London. St Paul’s Cathedral is one of the most visited places by the tourists in London it is the seat of the Bishop and the cathedral of the Dioceses of London.

History.

The Saint Paul’s Cathedral was built between 1676 and 1710. It was designed by the architect Christopher Wren, onto an old and medieval cathedral’s ruins that it burnt in 1666. The first Church in this site was built in 604. St Paul’s Cathedral has a baroque design. It is dedicated to Paul the Apostle.

Saint Paul’s plan.

James Thornhill painted scenes from the life of St Paul at the dome, Grinling Gibbons carved the Choir’s wood and the organ and another people decorated the cathedral later. The choir’s mosaic shows the Genesis. It was made by Stevens, Watts, Britten and Richmond at the end of the nineteenth century. His dome is the second biggest in the world then of the Saint Peter’s Basilica.

Crypt and dome.In the crypt are buried important people as Lord Nelson (soldier), Wellington (soldier and politician), Lawrence de Arabia (soldier, archaeologist and writer) and Fleming (scientist). You can visit the crypt. You can also go up the huge dome. Since here you can have a very good sight of London whole.

Saint Paul’s crypt

There are some important events as the royal weddings (the prince Charles and the princess Diana), funerals of important national figures and many commemorations.

Saint Paul’s dome.

THE LONDON EYE

The London also called Millenium wheel was completed of build in 2000 and each year since its opening have visited more than three million people. And actually is the third highest treadmill in the world.

The London Eye

Capsules

The London Eye have thirty-two capsules and if you want to upload at one, you must pay fifteen pounds, in euros are about seventeen.

Capsules like this

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner, that’s an area where open-air public speaking, debate and discussion are allowed.

Hyde Park

The map of the park

The park is divided in two by the Serpentine.

The Serpentine

The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens

Hyde Park covers 142 hectares (350 acres) and Kensington Gardens covers 111 hectares (275 acres), giving an overall area of 253 hectares (625 acres), though smaller than New York City's Central Park (341 ha/843 acres)

Another memorial in the Park commemorates the victims of the 7/7 terrorist attacks, in the form of 52 steel pillars - one for each of the dead.

To the east of the

Serpentine, just beyond

the dam, is London's

Holocaust Memorial.

Memorials