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My Sightseeing Tour of London
Chinatown
It is located in between Leicester Square and Shaftsbury Avenue, is a self-contained jumble of shops, cafes and restaurants that makes up one of London's most distinct and popular ethnic enclaves. Gerrard Street, Chinatown's main drag, has been endowed with ersatz touches - telephone kiosks rigged out as pagodas and fake Oriental gates - and few of a London's 80,000 Chinese actually live in the three small blocks of Chinatown. The Chinese New Year celebrations, instigated here in 1973, are a community-based affair, drawing in thousands of Chinese for the Sunday nearest to New Year' s Day (late Jan or early Feb). Huge papier-mache lions dance through the streets of London to a cacophony of fireworks devouring cabbages hung from the upper floors by strings pinned with money.
Changing the Guard
Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1.
Take tube to Victoria, St. James's Park or Green Park tube station. There are actually two ceremonies at separate places.
The more popular venue is Buckingham Palace where at 11.30 a m. on most days The Queen' s Guard, accompanied by a band, arrives from Wellington Barracks having marched via Bird Cage Walk to the palace. The ceremony lasts about 40 min. and takes place inside the railings of the palace. А separate ceremony also takes place daily throughout the year at Horse Guards Parade in Whitehall at 11 а.m. Mon-Sat and 40 min on Sun. Неге The Queen's Life Guard ride in to perform the ceremony via Hyde Park Corner, Constitution Hill and The Mall.
Covent Garden
It is was started out in the seventeenth I century as London's first luxury neigh-
bourhood and is once тоге a highly desirable place to live, work and shop. Based - around Inigo Jones' s piazza - London's oldest planned square - the area had for years been a market centre for fruit and vegetables. That was closed in 1974 and
for a while it looked as if the developers i would move in on this prime central real estate and demolisl. it all for unwanted new office blocks. These plans collapsed
I and now we have the elegant old market hall, and shops, restaurants and arts-and-crafts stalls. It has become one of London's major tourist attractions, which
now boast some of the trendiest clothes, shops, cafes and restaurants in London.
Downing Street
It is an office for the prime minister, а meeting place for the Cabinet, a venue for state events and a home for the prime minister's family. While in office, prime ministers traditionally live with their families in Downing Street in the private flat on the second floor. Prime Minister Топу Blair lives in the larger flat above Numbers 11 and 12, which has тоге room for his family.
Guy Fawkes
Ever wondered why do English celebrate Fawkes night with a huge bonfires and fireworks? Неге is why. Fawkes was a Catholic caught in the cellars at Westminster Hall trying to blow up the House of Lords on November 5, 1605. Later on, he was hanged, drawn and quartered in Old Palace Yard. You see, we celebrate his unsuccessful attempt in burning the place down.
London Aquarium
The F25 million London Aquarium is the first attraction of its kind in the capital, and is one of Europe's largest exhibitions of global aquatic life, displayed in over 2 million litres of. water.
Nelson's Column
Raised in 1843 and now one of London's best-loved monuments, commemorates the one-armed, one-eyed admiral who defeated Napoleon at the Ваttle of Trafalgar in 1805, but paid for it with his life.
The statue which surmounts the granite column is more than triple life-size but still manages to appear minuscule, and is coated in anti-pigeon gel to try and stem the build-up of guano. The acanthus leaves of the capital are cast from British cannons, while bar-reliefs around the base - depicting three of Nelson's earlier victories as well as his death aboard HMS Victory - are from captured French armaments. Edwin Landseer's four gargantuan bronze lions guard the column and provide a climbing frame for kids to clamber over. 14 stonemasons held a dinner on top of Nelson's Column before the statue was placed there. Every year, London receives as a gift huge Christmas tree from Norwegian city of Oslo.
Parliament Square
Parliament Square is a square outside the north-western end of the Palace of Wpstminster. It was laid out in order to ease the traffic around the Houses of Parliament. It is à traffic island that is surrounded by splendid architecture.
Piccadilly Circus
During the weekend this place is absolutely packed with people. Nightlife is in abundance here especially with night- clubs like the Hippodrome, MGM Cinema, local pubs and bars, people trying to draw your picture and the Trocadcro 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.
St. Раul's Cathedral
You it in the City of London will come upon. The present structure is the fifth cathedraI 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 cen-
tre. 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 SЕЕ sights in London.
After four years obscured by scaffolding the interior of St. Раul's Cathedral
was fully revealed on Thursday, 9 June 1 2008 at 9.30 a. m. after a F10.8 million programme of cleaning and repair. Work ! began in Мау 2001 and has seen the dome,
stonework, gilding, mosaics and sculptures painstakingly restored. During the monumental project over 1,000 containers of dust each containing around а cubic foot of dust) were removed and over 11,000 square metres of plain stone and 4,500 square metres of carved stone cleaned. Amazingly, the Cathedral has remained fully functional throughout.
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 Вагd's later works were first performed. (The original site of the Globe, marked by а blackened plaque on a brewery wall on Park Street, lies beneath a listed Geor-
gian 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.
Wimbledon
If you have missed the tournament itself (held every year in the last week of June and the first week of July), the next best thing for tennis fans is a quick spin around the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, situated by Gate 4, on the east side of the All England grounds, on Church Road. The museum traces the history of the gaine, which is descended from the "jea du pomme" played by the French clergy from the twelfth century onwards.
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