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The Tower The Tower of Londonof London

The Tower of London is the oldest palace in Europe.It was a fortress, a royal palace, the treasury for the Crown Jewels and later a prison. It is more than 900 years old.Now The Tower is one of the most popular museums.

It is called – the house of ravens.

The The legend legend says that says that without without ravens ravens the the Tower Tower will fall.will fall.

The Tower BridgeThe Tower Bridge

The British MuseumThe British Museum

The British museum started as a museum which collected everything – rare books and pictures, precious stones and stuffed animals, birds and butterflies, and ancient remains from all over the world.

Today the British museum is a treasure house of old, beautiful and interesting objects.

It’s interesting! The heaviest exhibit is a winged lion made of stone. It weighs 16 tons.

The oldest exhibit in the museum are stone tools from Africa, they are more than a million years old.

The National History MuseumThe National History Museum

The National History Museum was opened in 1881. The National History Museum was opened in 1881.

The museum was originally just a department of the The museum was originally just a department of the British Museum. Now the museum is famous for it’s British Museum. Now the museum is famous for it’s beautiful galleries. The museum is well known for it’s beautiful galleries. The museum is well known for it’s exhibitionsexhibitions which include Human biology, Story of which include Human biology, Story of the earth, Discovering …the earth, Discovering …

It has the finest natural history collection in the world – It has the finest natural history collection in the world – 68 million 68 million exhibits.

Big Ben is the Big Ben is the biggest clock bell in biggest clock bell in Great Britain.Great Britain.

The minute hand of Big Ben is The minute hand of Big Ben is 14 ft long, the hour hand is 9 ft, 14 ft long, the hour hand is 9 ft,

the figures are 2 ft long.the figures are 2 ft long.

14 ft = 4.26 meters 14 ft = 4.26 meters9 ft = 2.74 meters9 ft = 2.74 meters2 ft = 0.6 meters2 ft = 0.6 meters

The The magnificent magnificent iinterior nterior of St. of St. Paul’s Paul’s Cathedral Cathedral contains fine contains fine paintings, paintings, sculptures, sculptures, monuments monuments and works of and works of art, foremost art, foremost of which are of which are the original the original choir stalls choir stalls