Slide 1

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
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Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

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Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 2

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 3

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 4

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 5

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 6

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 7

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 9

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 10

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 11

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 12

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 13

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 14

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 15

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 16

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 17

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 19

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 21

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 23

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 25

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


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Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 27

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 28

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 29

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 30

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

MUSEUMS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org
www.aviewoncities.com


Slide 31

Kakoudi Zoe
Karabini Katerina
Kyriakou Annamaria

SIGHTS
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Big Ben
London Eye
House of Parliament
Tate Modern
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Buckingham Palace
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Gherkin
Westminster Abbey
National Gallery

•

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Kensington Palace
St. James Palace
Royal Albert Hall
Westminster Cathedral
Guildhall
Royal Opera House
National Portrait Gallery
Somerset House
Banqueting House
Tate Britain

BIG BEN
The clock inside the tower was the
world's largest when it was
installed in the middle of the 19th
century. The name Big Ben
actually refers to the clock's hour
bell, the largest of the clock's five
bells. The other four are used as
quarter bells. The clock was the
largest in the world and is still the
largest in Great-Britain. The clock
faces have a diameter of almost
25ft (7.5m). The tower was
constructed between 1843 and
1858 as the clock tower of the
Palace of Westminster.

LONDON EYE
Construction of the observation
wheel took more than a year and
a half to complete. In the process
over 1700 tones of steel were
used for the structure and more
than 3000 tones of concrete were
used for the foundations. The
observation wheel turns slow
enough for people to embark
while it is moving. A complete turn
takes about 30 minutes. Thanks
to the construction of the glass
capsules on the outer side of the
rim, the passengers have a great
360° view over London.

HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT
In the middle of the 11th century, King
Edward the Confessor had moved his
court to the Palace of Westminster,
situated on a central site near the
river Thames.
In 1265 a parliament was created
with two houses: the Lords and the
Commons. The House of Lords met at
the Palace of Westminster while the
House of Commons did not have a
permanent location. In 1834 a fire
destroyed the Palace of Westminster ,
leaving only the Jewel Tower, the crypt
and cloister of St. Stephens and
Westminster Hall intact. After the fire,
a competition was organized to create
a new building for the two houses of
parliament.

TATE MODERN
The galleries of Tate Modern
are housed in an enormous
brick building that was once
the home of the Bank side
Power Station. Designed by Sir
Giles Gilbert Scott, it was built
between 1947 and 1963. Its
striking tower is 99 meters tall;
regulations stipulated that it
was not allowed to be taller
than the dome of the St. Paul’s
Cathedral just across the river
Thames.

TOWER BRIDGE

Plans for the Tower Bridge were devised
around 1876 when the east of London
became extremely crowded and a
bridge across the Thames in that area
of the city seemed a necessity. It would
take another eight years - and lots of
discussions about the design - before
construction of the bridge started.
The bridge, designed by city architect
Horace Jones in collaboration with John
Wolfe Barry, would eventually be
completed in 1894. Five contractors
and nearly 450 workers were involved
in the construction of the 265 meter
long bridge. It took 11,000 tons of steel
to build the framework. At the time
many people disliked its Victorian
Gothic design, but over time the bridge
became one of London's most famous
symbols.

TOWER OF LONDON
Construction of the Tower of London
was initiated in 1070 by William the
Conqueror, shortly after his victory at
Hastings in 1066. The Tower was built
to enforce the power of the king over
the newly conquered region. Today
the Tower of London is best known for
its Crown Jewels, but it used to be
notorious for the many political
opponents of the kings that were
locked, tortured and killed in the
Tower. The Tower was also a royal
residence: several kings lived here,
especially during turbulent times
when the donjon seemed a lot safer
than the palace in Westminster.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace is the official
London residence and principal
workplace of the British monarch.
Located in the City of
Westminster, the palace is a
setting for state occasions and
royal hospitality. It has been a
focus for the British people at
times of national rejoicing and
crisis.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL
The cathedral is one of the most
famous and most recognizable
sights of London, with its dome,
framed by the spires of Wren's
City churches, dominating the
skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet
(111 m) high, it was the tallest
building in London from 1710 to
1962, and its dome is also among
the highest in the world. In terms
of area, St Paul's is the second
largest church building in the
United Kingdom after Liverpool
Cathedral.

GHERKIN
30 St Mary Axe (informally also
known as "the Gherkin" and
previously the Swiss Re
Building) is a skyscraper in
London's financial district, the
City of London, completed in
December 2003 and opened
at the end of May 2004. With
41 floors, the tower is 180
metres (591 ft) tall, and
stands on the site of the
former Baltic Exchange, which
was extensively damaged in
1992 by the explosion of a
bomb placed by the Provisional
IRA.

WESTMINSTER ABBEY
The Collegiate Church of St Peter
at Westminster, popularly known
as Westminster Abbey, is a large,
mainly Gothic church, in the City
of Westminster, London, located
just to the west of the Palace of
Westminster. It is the traditional
place of coronation and burial site
for English, later British and later
still (and currently) monarchs of
the Commonwealth realms. The
abbey is a Royal Peculiar and
briefly held the status of a
cathedral from 1540 to 1550.

NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is an art
museum on Trafalgar Square,
London. Founded in 1824, it
houses a collection of over 2,300
paintings dating from the mid13th century to 1900. The Gallery
is an exempt charity, and a nondepartmental public body of the
Department for Culture, Media
and Sport. Its collection belongs
to the public of the United
Kingdom and entry to the main
collection is free of charge. It is
the fourth most visited art
museum in the world, after the
Muse du Louvre, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and the British
Museum.

KENSINGTON PALACE
Kensington Palace is a royal
residence set in Kensington
Gardens, in the Royal Borough of
Kensington and Chelsea in
London, England. It has been a
residence of the British Royal
Family since the 17th century,
and is the official London
residence of the Duke and
Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke
and Duchess of Gloucester and
Prince and Princess Michael of
Kent, while the Duke and
Duchess of Kent reside at Wren
House. Kensington Palace is also
used on an unofficial basis by
Prince Harry, as well as his cousin
Zara Phillips.

ST. JAMES PALACE
Long the home of many of the most
famous kings and queens of England,
St. James's Palace was built by King
Henry VIII between 1531 and 1536.
Even today, the palace is still actively
used by the British royals. This
magnificent brick palace became the
principal royal residence in 1702
when Whitehall Palace was destroyed
by fire and Queen Anne moved to St.
James. Even St. James's Palace
today, it's still the "official" residence
of the sovereign, even though
Buckingham Palace became the new
chief residence after Queen Victoria
ascended to the throne in 1837.
Many ceremonial court functions
continue to be held here.

ROYAL ALBERT HALL
The red brick Royal Albert Hall
was built in the 19th century
as a multifunctional music and
entertainment hall. Today it is
one of London's most
recognizable landmarks and a
top European performing arts
venue.

WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
The primary Roman Catholic
cathedral in England and
Wales, Westminster Cathedral
is one of London's few
buildings in Byzantine style.
The cathedral is decorated
with beautiful friezes and
mosaics.

GUILDHALL
Ever since it was built in the early
15th century, the Guildhall has
been the home of the Corporation
of London, the governing body of
the Livery Companies - guilds - in
the City of London.
Even today the Corporation of
London, presided by the lord
mayor, governs the City of London
(with the City referring to London's
historic heart, Guildhall
also known as the Square Mile and
not Greater London). The lord
mayor is assisted by 24 aldermen
who govern one of the 24 districts
in the City, known as wards.

ROYAL OPERA HOYSE
The Royal Opera House is an
opera house and major
performing arts venue in
Covent Garden, central London.
The large building is often
referred to as simply "Covent
Garden", after a previous use of
the site of the opera house's
original construction in 1732. It
is the home of The Royal Opera,
The Royal Ballet, and the
Orchestra of the Royal Opera
House. Originally called the
Theatre Royal, it served
primarily as a playhouse for the
first hundred years of its history

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
The National Portrait Gallery is an
art gallery in London, England,
housing a collection of portraits of
historically important and famous
British people. It was the first
portrait gallery in the world when
it opened in 1856. The gallery
moved in 1896 to its current site
at St Martin's Place, off Trafalgar
Square, and adjoining the
National Gallery. It has been
expanded twice since then. The
National Portrait Gallery (NPG)
also has three regional outposts
at Beningbroch Hall,
Bodelwyddan Castle and
Montacute House.

SOMERSET HOUSE
Somerset House is a large
Neoclassical building situated on
the south side of the Strand in
central London, England,
overlooking the River Thames,
just east of Waterloo Bridge. The
building, originally the site of a
Tudor palace, was designed by Sir
William Chambers in 1776, and
further extended with Victorian
wings to the north and south

BANQUETING HOUSE
The Banqueting House, Whitehall,
London, is the grandest and best
known survivor of the
architectural genre of banqueting
house, and the only remaining
component of the Palace of
Whitehall. The building is
important in the history of English
architecture as the first building
to be completed in the neoclassical style which was to
transform English architecture.

TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain is an art gallery
situated on Milbank in London,
and part of the Tate gallery
network in Britain, with Tate
Modern, Tate Liverpool and
Tate St Ives. It is the oldest
gallery in the network, opening
in 1897. It houses a
substantial collection of the
works of J. M. W. Turner.

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Madame Tussauds
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum Of London
Sir John Soane's Museum
Science Museum

MADAME TUSSAUDS
Madame Tussauds London is a
major tourist attraction located in
Central London, housed in the
former London Planetarium. It is
famous for recreating famous
people and celebrities, in wax. It
is the original Madame Tussauds
attraction, having been situated
on Marylebone Road since 1884.
It was set up by wax sculptor
Marie Tussauds. It is operated by
Merlin Entertainments.

BRITISH MUSEUM
The British Museum is a museum
in London dedicated to human
history and culture. Its permanent
collection, numbering some eight
million works, is among the
largest and most comprehensive
in existence and originates from
all continents, illustrating and
documenting the story of human
culture from its beginnings to the
present. It is here where the
visitor can admire the amazing
“Marbles of the Parthenon”.

NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
The Natural History Museum is
one of three large museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London, England. The
museum is home to life and earth
science specimens comprising
some 70 million items within five
main collections: Botany,
Entomology, Mineralogy,
Paleontology and Zoology. The
museum is a world-renowned
centre of research, specializing in
taxonomy, identification and
conservation.

VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM
The Victoria and Albert Museum ,
London, is the world's largest
museum of decorative arts and
design, housing a permanent
collection of over 4.5 million
objects. It was founded in 1852
and named after Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert, the Prince
Consort. The V&A is located in the
Brompton district of the Royal
Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea, in an area that has
become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with
Prince Albert, the Albert Memorial
and the major cultural institutions
with which he was associated.

MUSEUM OF LONDON
The Museum of London
documents the history of London
from the Prehistoric to the present
day. The museum is located close
to the Barbican Centre, as part of
the striking Barbican complex of
buildings created in the 1960s
and 70s as an innovative
approach to re-development
within a bomb damaged area of
the City. The museum is jointly
controlled and funded by the City
of London Corporation and the
Greater London Authority.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM
Sir John Soane's Museum
was formerly the home of
the neo-classical architect
Sir John Soane. It holds
many drawings and models
of his projects and the
collections of paintings,
drawings and antiquities
that he assembled. The
Museum is in the Holborn
district of central London,
England, on Lincoln's Inn
Fields. The museum is a
non-departmental public
body sponsored by the
Department for Culture,
Media and Sport.

SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum is one of
the three major museums on
Exhibition Road, South
Kensington, London in the
Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea. The museum is a
major London tourist attraction,
attracting 2.7 million visitors
annually. The Science Museum
now holds a collection of over
300,000 items, including such
famous items as Stephenson's
Rocket, Puffing Billy etc.
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