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TEACHER IN CHARGE: EFI KONSTANTINOU

THE SIGHTS OF LONDON

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St Paul’s CATHEDRAL

St Paul's Cathedral, London, is an Anglican cathedral, the seat of the Bishop of London and the mother church of the Diocese of London. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London.

There was a late-Roman episcopal see in London, and Bishop Restitutus of London attended the Council of Arles in AD 314.

The location of Roman London's cathedral is unknown, although it has been argued that a large and ornate 5th-century building on Tower Hill, remains of which were excavated in 1999, may have been the cathedral.

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.

The street was known as Portugal Street in 1692 in honour of Catherine of Braganza, the queen consort of King Charles II of England but was known as Piccadilly by 1743.

Piccadilly Circus connects to Piccadilly, a thoroughfare whose name first appeared in 1626 as Piccadilly Hall, named after a house belonging to one Robert Baker, a tailor famous for selling piccadills, or piccadillies, a term used for various kinds of collars.

Greenwich is a district of South East London, England, located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich and situated 5.5 miles (8.9 km) east south-east of Charing Cross.

Greenwich is notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian (0° longitude) and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became the site of a royal palace, the Palace of Placentia from the 15th century, and was the birthplace of many Tudors, including Henry VIII and Elizabeth I.

The town became a popular resort in the 18th century and many grand houses were built there, such as Vanbrugh Castle (1717) established on Maze Hill, next to the park. From the Georgian period estates of houses were constructed above the town centre.

The maritime connections of Greenwich were celebrated in the 20th century, with the siting of the Cutty Sark and Gipsy Moth IV next to the river front, and the National Maritime Museum in the former buildings of the Royal Hospital School in 1934.

Greenwich formed part of Kent until 1889 when the County of London was created.

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Madame Tussaud

Is a major tourist attraction in

London, displaying waxworks of historical and

royal figures, film stars, sports stars

and infamous murderers . Is

owned and operated by Merlin

Entertainments.

Madame Tussaud’s  is a wax

museum in London with branches in a number of major

cities. It was founded

by wax sculptor Marie Tussaud and

was formerly known as "Madame

Tussaud's” .

Marie Tussaud was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1760 in  France.

Her mother worked as a housekeeper for Dr. Philippe Curtius in Bern, Switzerland, who was a physician skilled in wax modelling . Curtius taught

Tussaud the art of wax modelling.

Tussaud created her first wax sculpture,

of Voltaire, in 1777. Other famous

people she modelled at that time include Jean-

Jacques Rousseau and Benjamin

Franklin. During the French

Revolution she modelled many prominent victims.

In her memoirs she claims that she would

search through corpses to find the severed heads of executed

citizens, from which she would make death

masks. Her death masks were held up as

revolutionary flags and paraded through the

streets of Paris.

Following the doctor's death in 1794, she inherited his vast collection of wax models and spent the next 33 years

travelling around Europe. She married to Francois Tussaud in 1795 lent a new

name to the show: Madame Tussaud's. In 1802 she went to London, having

accepted an invitation from Paul Philidor, a magic

lantern and phantasmagoria pioneer, to exhibit her work alongside his show at

the Lyceum Theatre, London .

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The Buckingham Palace

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was

a large townhouse built for the Duke of

Buckingham in 1703 on a site which had been in

private ownership for at least 150 years. It was

subsequently acquired by King George III in 1761 as

a private residence for Queen Charlotte and was known as "The Queen's

House".

During the 19th century it was enlarged, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, who formed three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.

CHANGING GUARDS IS TAKING PLACE IN BUCKINGHAM PALACE

Buckingham Palace inside

Buckingham Palace has 775 rooms. These include 19 State rooms, 52 Royal and guest bedrooms, 188 staff bedrooms, 92 offices and 78 bathrooms. In measurements, the

building is 108 metres long across the front, 120 metres deep (including the central

quadrangle) and 24 metres high.

Buckingham Palace today

Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's

sovereigns since 1837 and today is the administrative headquarters of the

Monarch. Although in use for the many official events and receptions held by The Queen, the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace are open to visitors every year. For visitor information, please visit the

Royal Collection website.

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The London Eye

The London Eye was built as part of the celebrations in 2000, the millennium year. One thousand seven hundred tons of steel had been used to make the Eye and it was opened on 31st December, 1999. Since then, millions of people have taken a ride on the London Eye.

Many London landmarks, such as Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral and Big Ben, can be seen from the Eye. It is one of the most popular tourist attractions in London.

The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for

Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people

climb above the city and look back down on it. Not just

specialists or rich people, but everybody. That's the beauty

of it: it is public and accessible, and it is in a great

position at the heart of London...

Tower of London

The Tower of London is an ancient Norman stone fortress in London, England. It stands on the bank of the River

Thames, in the oldest part of the city.

History of the TowerThe fortress was built by William the

Conqueror, King William I, starting in 1078. The moat was built by Richard I, using water diverted from the River Thames.

The Tower had many uses. Its main function was to protect Norman rule in the years after the conquest. It was a prison, and a place of execution. Today, the Crown Jewels are kept there. This is the collection of jewels owned by the British state, and sometimes worn by the monarch. There is also a museum of armour.

Tower of London at night

HMS Belfast

HMS Belfast is a museum ship, originally a Royal Navy light cruiser, permanently moored in London on the River Thames and operated by the Imperial War Museum.

HMS Belfast was built by Messrs Harland & Wolff of Belfast in 1936. Anne Chamberlain, wife of the then Prime Minister launched Belfast on on St Patrick’s Day in1938. After fitting out and builder’s trials HMS Belfast was commissioned into the Royal Navy on 5 August 1939 under the command of Captain G A Scott DSO RN.

Designed for the protection of trade and offensive action she was immediately called into service patrolling the northern waters in efforts to impose a maritime blockade on Germany. However, disaster struck after only two months at sea when HMS Belfast hit a magnetic mine. There were few casualties but the damage to her hull was so severe she was out of action for three years.

After the Second World War HMS Belfast played an active role in the Korean War from 1950-1952 working with other Allied Forces to support the retreating American and South Korean troops. Her final years were spent performing peace-keeping duties until she was retired from service in 1963.

Trafalgar Square is a public space and tourist attraction in central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross. It is situated in the City of Westminster. At its centre is Nelson's Column, which is guarded by four lion statues at its base. There are a number of commemorative statues and sculptures in the square, while one plinth, left empty since it was built in 1840, The Fourth Plinth , has been host to contemporary art since 1999. The square gatherings, such as the celebration of New Year’s Evis also used for political demonstrations and community e.

The name commemorates the Battle of Trafalgar, a British naval victory of the Napoleonic Wars over France and Spain which took place on 21 October 1805 off the coast of Cape Trafalgar. The original name was to have been "King William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwel Taylor suggested the name "Trafalgar Square".

In the 1820s George IV engaged the architect John Nash to redevelop the area. Nash cleared the square as part of his Charing Cross Improvement Scheme. The present architecture of the square is due to Sir Charles Barry and was completed in 1845.

Trafalgar Square is owned by the Westminster City Council who own the roads around the square, including the pedestrianised area ueen in Right of the Crown and managed by the Greater London Authority, while of the North Terrace. It forms part of the North bank business improvement district.

Tower BridgeTower Bridge

Tower Bridge (built 1886–1894) is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London which crosses the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name, and has become an iconic symbol of London.

The bridge consists of two towers tied together at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical component of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower1977, when it was painted red, white an. The bridge's present colour scheme dates from d blue for Queen Elizabeth II's silver jubilee. Originally it was painted a mid greenish-blue colour.

The nearest London Underground tube stations are Tower Hill on the Circle and District line, London Bridge and Bermondsey and

the nearest Docklands Light Railway station is Tower Gateway.

Big Ben Big Ben is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London and often extended to refer to the clock and the clock tower. The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known as simply "Clock Tower"). The tower holds the largest four-faced chiming clock in the world and is the third-tallest free-standing clock tower. The tower was completed in 1858 and had its 150th anniversary on 31 May 2009, during which celebratory events took place. The tower has become one of the most prominent symbols of the United Kingdom and is often in the establishing shot of films set in London.

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