题目为travel in london的presentation
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Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge was opened in 1894 after 8 years of construction .The bridge’s designer is Horace Jones The bridge was designed to allow the river to flow across and also allows large ships to pass to the shipside beyond.
The bridge stands 800 feet high and can be raised in less than a minute.Tower Bridge is raised as many as five hundred times in a year.
Buckingham palace
Buckingham Palace has served as the official London residence of Britain's royalty since 1837.
At first it was a town house that was owned from the beginning of the eighteenth century by the Dukes of Buckingham.Today it is The Queen's official residence,with 775 rooms.
The State Rooms of the Palace are furnished with some of the greatest treasures from the Royal Collection - paintings by Rembrandt,Rubens,Vermeer,Poussin,Canaletto and Claude; sculpture by Canova and Chantrey; and some of the finest English and French furniture in the world.
The Houses of Parliament & Big Ben
Edward the Confessor built the original palace in the eleventh century.The British parliament is the seat of the Government of the United Kingdom.The Palace of Westminster consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
Parliamentary government in the United Kingdom is based on a two-chamber system.The House of Lords (the upper House) and the House of Commons (the lower house) sit separately and are constituted on entirely different principles.
BIG BEN
Big Ben,one of London’s famous landmarks is found at the Houses of Parliament.
Let's clear up a common misconception first; Big Ben is not the clock tower but the thirteenth bell which strikes the hour.
The tower was begun following the fire which destroyed an old Palace in 1834.Charles Barry was given the order to rebuild the Palace,and his designs included a clock tower.
The Tower
The clock tower took 13 years to build.The tower is 316 feet high.A staircase rises up inside the tower
You can get excellent views from the belfry(钟楼,钟塔) level after climbing up the tower.
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About Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge was opened in 1894 after 8 years of construction .The bridge’s designer is Horace Jones The bridge was designed to allow the river to flow across and also allows large ships to pass to the shipside beyond.
The bridge stands 800 feet high and can be raised in less than a minute.Tower Bridge is raised as many as five hundred times in a year.
The British museum
The British Museum is one of the oldest,largest and most famous museums in the world.Founded in 1753 to promote universal understanding through arts,natural history and science,the Museum holds objects and artworks dating from the 7th millennium BC to the present day,and covers all major world cultures
Westminster Abbey
Westminster abbey is located in the west part of London.
The Abbey was constructed in the Gothic style in the eleventh century.It is the site of both coronation and burial for Kings and Queens of England.
The major attractions at the Westminster Abbey are the Lady Chape the Coronation Chair,the Poets’ Corner..Several tombs like the tomb of the Unknown Soldier,Royal Tombs etc.are also worth seeing.
Other famouse people in English history,including Darwin,Newton,Kipling,Dickens,Chaucer and Pitt the Younger are also buried at the Abbey alongside most of England’s monarchs since 1066.
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The London Eye
The world’s largest observation wheel is 135 metres high.It provides a 30-minute,slow-moving 'flight' over London.It is designed to reflect the elements of air,water,earth and time .Each high-tech capsule can contain up to 25 people.The attraction has the capacity to handle 1,500 visitors every hour
Hyde Park
Hyde Park is the largest of London's Royal Park,which covers 1.6 million square meters.Princess Diana Memorial Fountain is built in the south-western corner of Hyde Park.In the north part of the Hyde Park is the famous Speaker's Corner.
There are Large open-air concerts every summer here in Hyde Park
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