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Our route:

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These areas have been the centre of political andreligious power in England for a thousand years.

Houses of Parliament

Big Ben (it is the bell, not the clock!)

Jewel Tower (this and Westminster Hall are the only remains of the old Palace of Westminster)

Westminster Abbey

D ' Y d (D d d B J h s th it t th thl t s d t lk d it)

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Picadilly is the main artery of the West End. The name comes from the

17th fashionable pickadillstan (remember the white piece of clothing round

their necks??). Saint James's still preserves buildings from the 18th

century, when it was full of Royal palaces and the court gathered and

shopped in the area. Two shops in Saint James's Street remind us of this

time: the hat shop Lockand the wine shop Berry Bros. & Rudd. Fortnum and

M i Pi dill h d lit f d f l t 300 I th

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Lancaster House

Buckingham Palace

Queen's Gallery

Royal Mews

Wellington Arch

Apsley House

Shepherd Market

Green Park

Faraday Museum (reconstruction of Faraday's, the pioneer of the 19th century in the use ofelectricity, scientific items and personal objects)

Soho and Trafalgar

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Chinatown

Charing Cross (bookshop street) Palace Theatre (the only architectural interesting theatre; it belongs to Andrew Lloyd Webber)

Soho Square

Berwick Street Market (veg & fuit street market since 1840)

Carnaby Street (the Oxford dictionary accepts Carnaby as a synonym of "fashionable clothesfor young people")

The City

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Saint Mary-at-Hill church

Saint Margarit -oops, Saint Margaret Pattens church

Tower Bridge

All Hallows by the Tower

Tower of London

Saint Katharines's Dock

Stock Exchange

Saint Helen's Bishopgate church

Saint Katharine Cree church Leadenhall Market (started as the Roman Forum and has had a market since the Middle Ages)

Lloyd's of London (modern building that remind us of the Pompidou in Paris)

Guildhall Art Gallery

Camden Town

North of the town centre Lords Cricket Ground

Camden Market

Freud Museum

Highgate cemetery (in the western area, Egyptian style Victorian family tombs, the Circleof Lebanon, Karl Marx and George Elliot)

Th J i h M

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Regent's Canal

London Zoo

Cumberland Terrace

South Kensington and Knightbridge

A f l t d b i

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South Bank, Southwark and Bankside

South Ban k

The architecture of many of its buildings, especially the Hayward Gallery,

has been widely criticised. Today it is admired by people interested in

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Southwark and Bankside

Southwark was the "escape" from The City, where people could find

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London Dungeon (museum to cause horror inspired by Madame Tussaud's horror room; it showsthe most frightening part of British history, with actors and special effects. There are rooms

dedicated to the Black Death, torture methods and Jack the Ripper) Design Museum

HMS Belfast

Covent Garden and Strand

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Victoria Embankment Gardens

Adelphi

Charing Cross (the name comes from the last of the 12 crosses

raised by Edward I to mark his wife's, Leonor from Castille, funeral

route)

London Coliseum (the biggest theatre in London and the first to havelifts in Europe)

Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia

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Foundling Museum ( Captain Thomas Coram tried to give abandoned

children housing and schooling. His friend William Hogarth gave him

many pictures and he created the first art gallery in Britain, to invite

rich people to his hospital and hope they left donations for the

children)

British Library

Saint Pancras International

Saint Pancras Parish Church (the outside looks very much like the

Acropolis in Athens) Woburn Walk

Pecival David Foundation for Chinese Art

Fitzroy Square

Fitzroy Tavern (famous clients: Dylan Thomas, George Orwell and

Augustus John)

Charlotte Street Pollock's Toy Museum

Kensington, Holland Park and Notting Hill

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Holland Park (with more trees than Hyde Park and Kensington

Gardens. It contains some original gardens from the beginning of the

19th century, a Japanese garden and fauna)

Leighton House

Linley Sambourne House

Kensington Roof Gardens (6000 square metres of a 1930 garden on aroof; the gardens include a wood, a Spanish garden with palm trees,

an English garden with pond, ducks and a couple of flamingoes. Free

entry) Kensington Square

Kensington Palace Gardens

The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground

Queensway

Portobello Road (a lively market since 1837)

Notting Hill

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