The sights of London

The National Gallery houses a fine collection of works from the British, French, Dutch, Italian and Spanish schools.

The Tate Gallery was founded as the National gallery of British Painting, Modern Foreign Painting and Modern Sculpture from the collection of Sir Henry Tate whose name it now bears.

The British Museum contains immensely valuable ethnographical, archaeological and other collections. There is a library which is one of the largest libraries in the world.

Fleet Street when used figuratively means “the British press” as it is in this street that the publishing houses of important British newspapers are situated.

Whitehall - the street in which government offices are located (such as the Home Office and Treasury). Whitehall derives its name from the palace built there by Henry VIII.

The Tower of London dates in part from the Norman Conquest of 1066 and has been at one time or another citadel, palace, prison, treasury, armoury and observatory. At present the Tower is a museum.

Piccadilly Circus. A round square from which the West End best-known streets radiate- Piccadilly, Regent Street, the Haymarket and Shaftesbury Avenue.

Victoria Station - a railway station in London. Among other big stations are Waterloo Station, Euston Station, Paddington Station, Euston Station and others.

Greenwich area is the most famous thing about London Greenwich is the Old Royal Observatory from where time all over the world is measured.

Shakespeare`s Globe Theatre is the biggest crowds currently to be found along Bank side 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, inevitably, a shop selling lots of Bard merchandise.

Royal Festival Hall - The Royal Festival Hall stands at the heart of Southbank Centre complex. Opened in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, the hall is one of the world’s leading concert venues, presenting concerts by the finest international orchestras, operas, and a wide spread of contemporary music events, from jazz to world, to rock and pop music.

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