伦敦十大景点英文介绍.ppt

7. St Pauls Cathedral 10 Places of London 1.The London Eye 2.Madame Tussauds 3. 3.Brick Lane 4.Westminster abbey 5.National Gallery 6. Hyde Park 7.St PaulCathedral 8.BuckinghamPalace 9. Windsor Castle 10.TheBritishMuse um 1.London Eye The London Eye, which is 450 feet in height above the Thames River, is the worlds biggest spinning structure. It is one hundred feet taller than Big Ben, and weighing 1,600 tons. It was built to celebrate the year 2000. Possibly building such a big spinning structure suggested that people longed for bigger and better things in the future. 2.MADAME TUSSAUDS Madame Tussauds. where you can see some movie stars, singers and sports players. Yet this place is as star-studded as the red carpet of the Grammy Awards She was born in French ,her uncle taught her craft of waxing and she had natural talent. Finally she left French in order to establish a wax exhibition in London 3. BRICK LANE Brick Lane is a street in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the citys Bangladeshi- Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown.1 It is famous for its many curry houses. 4.Westminster abbey Westminster Abbey Formally titled The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, this mainly Gothic church in London is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. First built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 - 1065 in the Norman style, it replaced an earlier church on the same site. It was built as an abbey for the Benedictine monks and was consecrated on December 28, 1065. It was rebuilt in the Gothic style between 1245 - 1517, with Henry VII adding a perpendicular style chapel in 1503. 5.National Gallery The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. With paintings ranging from 1250 to 1900， the collection includes work by Botticelli， Leonardo da Vinci， Rembrandt， Gainsborough， Turner， Cezanne and Van Gogh. 6.Hyde Park Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers Corner. The park was the site of the Great Exhibition of 1851, for which the Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton. The park has become a traditional location for mass demonstrations. The Chartists, the Reform League, the Suffragettes and the Stop The War Coalition have all held protests in the park. Many protesters on the Liberty and Livelihood March in 2002 started their march from Hyde Park. On 20 July 1982 in the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings, two bombs linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army caused the death of eight members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets and seven horses. 7.St Pauls Cathedral St Pauls Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral dedicated to Paul the Apostle. It sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the seat of the Bishop of London. At 365 feet (111m) high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962, and its dome is also among the highest in the world. Important services held at St Pauls include the funerals of Lord Nelson, the Duke of Wellington and Sir Winston Churchill; Jubilee celebrations for Queen Victoria; peace services marking the end of the First and Second World Wars; the launch of the Festival of Britain and the thanksgiving services for both the Golden Jubilee and 80th Birthday of Her Majesty the Queen. The Royal Family holds most of its important marriages, christenings and funerals at Westminster Abbey, but St Pauls was used