AROUND LONDON n British Museum front view British
AROUND LONDON
n British Museum – front view
British Museum- interior
n British Museum- reading room
n British Museum- Assyrian sculpture
British Museum – Cyrus cilinder n Is a document issued by the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great in the form of a clay cylinder inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script. The cylinder was created following the Persian conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, when Cyrus overthrew the Babylonian king Nabonidus and replaced him as ruler, ending the Neo-Babylonian Empire. n
n British Museum- Sculptures
n The Houses of Parliament
n Big-Ben by night and by day n The clock tower was built at Westminster in 1288.
The tower is designed in Gothic Revival style, and is 96. 3 metres high (roughly 16 stories). n The clock faces are large enough to have once allowed the Clock Tower to be the largest fourfaced clock in the world. n At the base of each clock face in gilt letters is the Latin inscription: “DOMINE SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM “ Which means O Lord, keep safe our Queen Victoria the First.
n Piccadilly Circus
n Piccadilly Circus
n Piccadily Circus panorama
n n Westminster Abbey Is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English.
n Westminster Abbey- the cloister
n Edward’s Coronation Chair
n Westminster Abbey n The plan of construction 1894
10 Downing Street (Colloquially known in the United Kingdom as “Number 10”) Is the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury and hence Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. n Almost three hundred years old, the building contains about one hundred rooms. n
n The Barbican Art Centre- interior
n The Barbican Art Centre- outside
n The Buckingham Palace
n Trafalgar Square
n Trafalgar Square by night- the fountains
n Trafalgar Square at Christmas
n Trafalgar Square from 1908 to 2009
St. Paul’s Cathedral
n St. Paul’s Cathedral- the interior
n St. Paul’s Cathedral- The Dome
Cathedral's organ
n The Cathedral seen from above
n St. Paul’s Cathedral- picturesque
n The statue of St. Paul
n Madame Tussaud’s -wax museum
n W. Churchill -Tussaud’s first wax sculpture
Wax figures
The National Gallery
n n The National Gallery- by night Next is the church St. Martin in the Fields
Caravaggio- The boy peeling fruits Michelangelo- Mona Lisa
Rubens Rembrandt
Tower Bridge
n One of the towers seen from the bridge
n The Tower Bridge open
n The Tower Bridge seen from above
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