What to see in London Que voir Londres

What to see in London Que voir à Londres

Piccadilly Cirus is a place which is famous forf its shops and lights ! There are lots of nightclubs near Piccadilly Circus where you can see a lot of British celebrities. In Piccadilly Circus, there is a fountain where tourists and Londoners can read books or hang-out with friends.

Buckingham Palace is where the Queen and the King live. It was built between 1703 and 1826 ! It took more than hundred years to built it ! Buckingham Palace is situated in the City of Westminster (there are two cities in London : the City of London and the City of Westminster). There a lot of rooms : rooms for art paintings, for Royal parties, for dinners with the Royal family members or ministers. In front of Buckingham Palace, there are guards to keep it safe. Tourists often make funny faces to them to make them laugh but they are not allowed to laugh !

The London Eye The EDF Energy London Eye is a giant Ferris Wheel on the embankmants of the Thames. It was built in 1998 and 1999, the wheel is 135 metres high and has a diameter of 120 metres. It costed £ 70 million (€ 81 millions), it was inaugurated on December 31 st, 1999 and has been opened to public on March 9 th, 2000. The wheel has 32 cabins, each cabin for each London district. When you enter the cabin, you can see all London : the Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, the City, Covent Garden, Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace…

King’s Cross-St Pancras King’s Cross and St Pancras are two different stations. King’s Cross is a Tube Station and St Pancras is a railway station. They are located in the North of London, in Camden. St Pancras opened on October 1 st, 1868 as a terminus for Midland King’s Cross opened in 1863. The Eurostar arrives from Paris in St Pancras in only 2 hours and a half. 6 lines crosses King’s Cross : Circle line, Hammersmith & City line, Metropolitan line, Northern line, Piccadilly line and Victoria Line.

Oxford Street is a very famous road in the city of Westminster (London). It’s the longest commercial road in the world, it’s 2, 5 km long ! There are 300 shops and restaurants and four Tube Stations.

Westminster Abbey is located near Big Ben and the London Eye, in the heart of London. It’s a famous religious place in the World. This gothic church was built between 1042 and 1065 by King Edward the Confessor. This place is a royal necropole and a lot of Royal personalities ware crowned and married here. For example : the Queen Elizabeth ll has been crowned and married there, Prince Edward and Kate Middleton married there in 2011.

Covent Garden is a market in London, it has a lot of restaurants like cupcake restaurants, smoothie bars, mexican restaurants and english restaurants