Viatge de 1r de Batxillerat 2008-09IES Francesc Xavier Lluch i RafecasVilanova i la Geltrú – BCNNom:

Wednesday 15th of April 2009Our route:A. Whitehall and Westminster

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These areas have been the centre of political and religious 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 Dean's Yard (Dryden and Ben Johnson -the writer, not the athlete- used to walk around it) Saint Margaret's church (Margaret, not Margarit; we're ogres in my family, not

saints) Parliament Square Cenotaph (monument to the dead of World War I) Downing Street (the Prime Minister's residence; you need important contacts to visit it) Cabinet War Rooms and Churchill Museum (World War II cabinet rooms) Banqueting House (First building to adopt the Paladian architectural style from Italy in

London) House Guards Parade Trafalgar Studios Queen Ann's Gate (big elegant houses from 1704. The M15, the British Secret Service,

is supposed to have organised its activities in here until recently) Guards Museum Saint James's Park Station (it holds the London Transport Company and has works

of Jacob Epstein and Henry Moore) Blewcoat School Westminster Cathedral Saint John en Smith Square (English baroque masterpiece, today an auditorium) Tate Britain

Wednesday 15th of April 2009Our route:B. Picadilly and Saint James

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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 Lock and the wine shop Berry Bros. & Rudd. Fortnum and Mason, in Picadilly, has served quality food for almost 300 years. In the north, Mayfair, is still the most elegant suburb in London.

Picadilly Circus (Eros, the Greek God of Love, has become a symbol of London) Saint James's Church (a favourite of Wren's) Albany (Lord Byron, Graham Green, two Prime Ministers , William Gladstone and Edward

Heath, and the actor Terence Stamp lived in this appartment building) Royal Academy of Arts Burlington Arcade (it still has caretakers that throw out the people who don't keep the

site clean) Ritz Hotel Spencer House Saint James's Palace Saint James's Square Royal Opera Arcade Pall Mall (150-year-old elegant clubs only for men where they fleed from their wives) Institute of Contemporary Arts Saint James's Park The Mall Marlborough House Queen's Chapel Clarence House Lancaster House Buckingham Palace Queen's Gallery Royal Mews Wellington Arch

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Apsley House Shepherd Market Green Park Faraday Museum (reconstruction of Faraday's, the pioneer of the 19th century in the

use of electricity, scientific items and personal objects)

Wednesday 15th of April 2009Our route:C. Soho and Trafalgar

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Famous as the entertainment area of town since its creation in the 12th century. Throughout its first hundred years, it was a very elegant area and its inhabitants held eccentric parties. It has become a multicultural suburb, famous for its Chinatown.

Trafalgar Square Admiralty Arch National Gallery Saint Martin-in-the-Fields (model of a church for United States; famous people are

buried there -eg Charles's II lover Nell Gynne, the painters William Hogarth andJoshua Reynolds) National Portrait Gallery (it shows British history through the portraits of poets,

kings and Queens, musicians, philosophers, heroes and villains) Leiscester Square (with Charles Chaplin's statue and Shakespeare's fountain) Theatre Royal Haymarket Shaftesbury Avenue (the theatre and cinema street; Count Shaftesbury opened this

avenue between 1877 and 1886 to improve communications to the West End through a very poor suburb; he improved the lives of the poor of the area)

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

clothes for young people")

Wednesday 15th of April 2009Our route:D. The City

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The financial district of London. It is built on top of the Roman settlement of Londinium. The complete name is City of London, but it is best-known as The City. Most of the area disappeared in both the Great Fire in 1666 and World War II.

Sites to see and visit in Cockneyland: Mansion House (official residence of the Town Hall Mayor) Saint Stephen Walbrook church Royal Exchange Bank of England Museum Saint Mary-le-Bow church Saint Paul's Cathedral Old Bailey (long relationship with crime; opposite, the pub "Magpie and Stump" used to

serve the execution breakfasts until 1868 until the hanging outside the prison was forbidden) Apothecaries' Hall (most members are doctors and surgeons; some strange old

students: Oliver Cromwell and John Keats) Fishmonger's Hall Saint Magnus the Martyr church (shouldn't it be Olga instead of Magnus?) Monument Old Billingsgate 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

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Thursday 16th of April 2009Our route:E. Camden Town

North of the town centre Lord’s Cricket Ground Camden Market Freud Museum Highgate cemetery (in the western area, Egyptian style Victorian family tombs, the

Circle of Lebanon, Karl Marx and George Elliot) The Jewish Museum

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Thursday 16th of April 2009Our route:F. Regent’s Park and Marylebone

South of Regent's Park, you can find the medieval village of Marylebone, with the highest number of Georgian houses in London.

Mme Tussaud and Planetarium Regent's Park Saint Marylebone Parish Church Harley Street Portland Place Broadcasting House All Souls church Langham Hotel Wigmore Hall Wallace Collection Sherlock Holmes Museum (The building has been altered and furnished exactly like

221b, Baker Street. You are shown the different rooms and you can buy Sherlock's books and hunter's hats on the ground floor)

London Central Mosque Regent's Canal London Zoo Cumberland Terrace

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Thursday 16th of April 2009Our route:G. South Kensington and Knightbridge

Area of consulates and embassies. Natural History Museum Victoria and Albert Museum Brompton Oratory Royal College of Music Royal Albert Hall Royal College of Art Albert Memorial Serpentine Gallery Kensington Palace Kensington Gardens Hyde Park Speaker's Corner (in 1872 the law allowed public speeches on any subject. Since

then, on this corner of Hyde Park there's a meeting point of orators and eccentric speakers)

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Marble Arch Harrods

Thursday 16th of April 2009Our route:H. South Bank, Southwark and Bankside

South Bank

The architecture of many of its buildings, especially the Hayward Gallery, has been widely criticised. Today it is admired by people interested in culture. Also, one can find one of the new symbols of the new millenium London, the London Eye; from its top there are great views of the town.

Royal National Theatre Hayward Gallery Royal Festival Hall County Hall British Airways London Eye Florence Nightingale Museum (the first "proper" nurse) Museum of Garden History Lambeth Palace Imperial War Museum The Old Vic (Vic from Victoria, not Vic from the Catalan town!) Gabriel's Wharf Waterloo Station

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Southwark and Bankside

Southwark was the "escape" from The City, where people could find entertainment and forbidden pleasures. Borough High Street was full of taverns, some of their Medieval yards have been preserved. At the end of the 16th century, the area was full of theatres and premises for bear and cock fights. One can still see a reproduction of The Globe Theatre in its original setting. Also, we can see the Design Museum, historical pubs, Borough Market and Southwark Cathedral.

Southwark Cathedral Hop Exchange (used to be a brewery) Borough Market George Inn The Old Operating Theatre The Globe Theatre Cardinal's Wharf Bankside Gallery Tate Modern The Anchor (pub from the 16th century, although there are older remains) Vinopolis Clink Prison Museum Bermondsey London Dungeon (museum to cause horror inspired by Madame Tussaud's horror room;

it shows the 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

Friday 17th of April 2009

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Our route in the morning:I. Covent Garden and Strand

The Piazza and Central Market Saint Paul's Church London's Transport Museum Theatre Museum Theatre Royal Drury Lane Royal Opera House Neal Street and Neal's Yard (19th century shops) Thomas Neal's (commercial centre) Seven Dials (column with 6 clocks in the crossing of 7 streets) Lamb and Flag (pub from the 16th century) Photographers' Gallery Adelphy Theatre Savoy Hotel Savoy Chapel (the Queen's private chapel; it was the hospital's

chapel in Henry VII's era; part of its walls date back to 1512) Somerset House Saint-Mary-le-Strand Roman Baths (which are not Roman) Bush House (BBC World Service premises; nothing to do with

George Bush or his dad) 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 have lifts in Europe)

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Friday 17th of April 2009Our route in the morning:

J. Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia

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Bloomsbury and Fitzrovia have been synonims of literature, art and erudition. The Bloomsbury artists and writers were active till 1930's. The name Fitzrovia was invented by Dylan Thomas, who was a client in the Fitzroy Tavern.

British Museum Bloomsbury Square (Virginia Woolf and friends lived there) Saint George Church Russell Square (one of the biggest squares in London; you can

find the best Victorian hotel, the Russel Hotel; the poet T.S. Elliot worked in the western corner of the square)

Queen Square (George III stayed in a doctor's house who tried to cure him from a hereditary illness which drove him to madness and death)

Charles Dickens Museum (he lived in here for 3 very productive years)

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

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Friday 17th of April 2009Our route in the morning:K. Kensington, Holland Park and Notting Hill

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Around Holland Park, you can see unbelievable Victorian Houses in a luxurious residential area. Two of them are open to the public. Bayswater and Noting Hill are more cosmopolitan and lively. Portobello Road has beome a popular market, where you can find anything from food to antiques.

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 a roof; 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

Friday 17th of April 2009Our route in the morning:

(Wembley? Arsenal? Chelsey? Tottenham?) Football Stadium

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Interviewing young people in London. Questions:

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Wallington in yellow

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