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is essential to move to London Underground, or Tube, as it is called in these parts because of the shape of the tunnel reminiscent of a large tube, the chaotic and crowded cities, does not allow you to easily move to the surface. Of course, sitting on the second floor of a characteristic red bus, maybe some queued along the road and you can leisurely enjoy the city at its best, but often the time seems never enough, especially when you are staying in the city just a few days.
safe to walk on foot for the neighborhoods is the best thing to live fully in the British capital, but as the distances between one place and another in some cases are significant, use the efficient metro can be the ideal solution.
Like all big cities, London is also the river that runs through much of its prosperity.
The Thames has seen historically birth to a village near its shores in '55 BC originally inhabited by peoples Celts and Gauls, the Romans came and the village became a fortified city called Londinium. The Roman occupation lasted for four centuries, since there were many vicissitudes and changes of power that shook the city for many years to reach stability reigning in 1066, thanks to the Normans with William the Conqueror. Among the Norman sovereigns who reigned in London, Richard the Lionheart and King John were among the most important measures.
The Hundred Years War with France and the change of dynasties, from Lancaster to Tudor, from Henry VIII to Stuart, by Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II to the present, fortified the English monarchy in the days coming up our making England an international power that conquered colonies and spread their language all over the world.
As for the districts of London, in the first part
we have described the Soho entertainment district, on its border near Regent Street, Carnaby Street will no longer as mythical as the time of the Beatles, but still busy of tourists.
entire West End in our view should be explored, you can lose yourself in Mayfair, the elegant neighborhood of the finest homes dating from the eighteenth century they are in the most prestigious boutiques. From Do not miss Oxford Street, one of the largest and most famous shopping streets in the world with its 300 shops. Wandering here and there you will find yourself in Baker Street, made famous by Sherlock Holmes when there is also a museum in his honor and not far away, continuing to walk you will arrive in Marylebone Road where you will find the wax museum Tussaud's. An interesting fact about Madame Marie Tussaud, French-born, he learned as a child to work the wax and after making his first works he moved from Paris to London, opening its current headquarters in the wax museum that is not only became famous in the world is also found in other major cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, Las Vegas, New York, Shangai, Washington, Roma e da qualche anno anche a Hollywood.
Il famoso museo è aperto dalle 9,30 alle 17,30, gli orari possono cambiare a seconda della stagione, e le code per entrare sono piuttosto lunghe, pare venga visitato da tre milioni di persone l’anno.
Un’altra curiosità, se arrivate da Madame Tussaud con la metropolitana, la fermata è Baker Street che è la più antica stazione della metropolitana al mondo, aperta nel 1863 in occasione dell’inaugurazione della prima ferrovia sotterranea di Londra.
Continuando con le curiosità, il gruppo proprietario Madame Tussaud's Museum, Merlin Entertainments, also runs the London Eye, the London Eye, the ferris wheel was inaugurated by the then Prime Minister Tony Blair 31 December 1999 to enter the new millennium.
The tourist attraction has been for some years, the world's tallest Ferris wheel with its 135 meters and then passed by the Singapore Flyer, a Ferris wheel 165 feet high.
adjacent to the West End there is another Bloomsbury area, well known for the elegance of its nineteenth-century squares, to be the district where there is a real institution Brithis the London Museum, that you should visit. The Brithis is one of the biggest and richest museums in the world, established in 1753 was also one of the first museums open to the public in 1759, its neoclassical building contains spaces in its representation of almost all civilizations in the world of the most important that the Rosetta Stone enabled the deciphering of hieroglyphics, a section devoted to ancient Britain and the famous Magna Carta, a milestone in the democratic development of Europe.
Not only that, you can enjoy the Brithis the Portland vase in the first century BC, the oldest vessel in the world, rare relics of Mayan culture to the mummies and Greek dell’antico Egitto, insomma, un viaggio che vi farà ripercorrere 2500 anni storia del mondo. L’ingresso al museo è libero, l’apertura solitamente è dalle 10,00 alle 17,30 e l’esperienza è unica. Russel Square, una delle più vaste piazze di Londra è il punto di riferimento del grande museo, raggiungibile con la linea blu della tube (Piccadilly-line)
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| Russel Square |
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| Entrata del Brithis Museum |
Se non siete ancora stanchi a due fermate di metro, vi troverete a Covent Garden. Una piazza dove sorge il Market, un vecchio mercato ortofrutticolo costruito in ferro e vetro del 1830 oggi trasformato in un complesso pedonale di negozi e ritrovi. La zona è ricca di teatri tra cui il Covent Garden Theatre o Royal Opera House uno dei più importanti teatri d’opera al mondo.
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| Interno del market a Covent Garden |
Un altro quartiere elegante è Kensington in cui vi sono altre due zone South Kesington e Kinghtsbridge.
South Kesington is the neighborhood favorite artists, where stands the Victoria Albert Museum end one of the largest museums in the world in the field of applied decorative arts. Built in 1852, housed in a magnificent Italian Renaissance-style palace, one of the most valuable works are kept Raphael's cartoons, seven of the ten bases in Brussels for tapestries for the Sistine Chapel and which are now preserved in the Vatican Pinacoteca. There are also works by Antonio Canova, Donatello and Michelangelo Buonarroti, a museum must for fans of the genre, is open daily from 10.00 to 17.45 here admission is free.
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| Royal Albert Museum |
Kinghtsbridge other hand, is famous for being the district where the Harrods of which we have spoken
in the first part. Not far from South Kesington some metro stop, there's Portobello Road.
We are in Notting Hill, the neighborhood made famous by Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the film.
On Saturday morning there are 1000 stalls to compose the famous and largest antiques market in the world, from half past five in the morning to start putting together a show featuring color, antiques, people shouting, jingling of objects that can be worth a few cents to thousands of pounds, all surrounded by Victorian buildings that accompany the visitors to the end of the market where there are stalls with samples of gourmet cuisine that we travel we could not lose.
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| gourmet market |
leaving slightly towards the north from the city center and changing attractiveness, there is a neighborhood that we announce because London is also strange and curious, and if you like to browse among the oddities, the markets of Camden Tonw those parts are a major tourist attraction of the weekend and beyond. A Camden Tonw are products of all types at affordable prices, including clothing, books, food, antiques and bizarre objects. The markets and surrounding shops are popular among young people, particularly those who are looking for alternative clothing.
To get there take the black line of the metro (Northern Line) and get off at Camden Tonw. The crowd is amazing and that you will find the main street of Camden High Street, is full of quirky shops, not having large internal spaces, using the facades External as large windows creating an original choreographic effect.
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| colorful facades of Camden Tonw |
For those who collect vinyl records or want to share music of all kinds neighborhood is a real paradise, you will find any hard even what you forgot. Camden is also attended by numerous and colorful punk, walking you will arrive at picturesque canals of Amsterdam and who could remember when you are in front of a building that says Camden Lock revenue, you'll be one of London's most famous market where you can find any kind of item .
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| Camden Market Look |
Last tip before finishing the second part devoted to the British capital, to do not miss a visit to Greenwich, a large suburb lying on the right bank of the Thames renowned for its astronomical observatory, the park and especially to be the location of latitude 0 and a basis for defining the time at Greenwich, on which you adjust the clocks around the world .
A plaque and a line placed in the courtyard of the Old Royal Observatory indicate the transition point Meridian 0.
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| observatory |
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| Meridian 0 |
To get there you must take the Doclands Light Railway.
for continuing appointment at the third and last part ...
