2008年10月31日星期五

London

London is the capital of Britain. It is located in the southeast plain of England, Thames River goes through this city, and the estuary is 88 kilometers far from London. The British lived there about 3000 years. Rome empire intruded into Britannia Island in 54 B.C, and in 43 B.C it came to be the main army services station of Rome, and the Roman built the first wooden bridge on the Thames River. London was called as” Londinium” in that period.London is a world famous cultural city ,and it is also famous in tourism,there are many famous cultural relics. The developed transportation and ravishing relic make it to be a famous traveling city. There are about eight million people come to visit in London every year.
The largest museum is British Museum, which was built in 18th century, there are many ancient cultural relics of Britain and other countries. The London Tower was built on the southeast of Tower Mountain ,and it had been used as a palace ,jail ,archives ,and it is the exhibition of crowns and arms now. Westminster Hall is located in the west of Thames and it was built in 750 A.D, about eight acres, it is the largest Gothic building of the world,it was a palace in the past, and now it is the place where the British parliament located, the Clock Tower is in the northeast of the parliament, which is about 97 meters high, the famous “Big Ben”is about 21 ton with a big pendulum about 305 kilogram. Hyde Park is one of the British interests ,and it is in the west district of London, it is the largest park in the urban area, there is a free forum in the park ,and some people always give lectures in there every week, they can say anything except attacking the queen or advocating violent revolution.
In the west of London there is a Notting Hill ,it is hard to believe there has a block with thick foreign style in London which is a city filled with classics.In every summer ,the Dionysia will attract many foreign visitors.

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Jussi Koiranen 说...

It is hard to find the comment box when all texts are in well completely unknown language and alphabets. But London, that is a city I now even more want to visit. Walk along Thames and enjoy fish and chips.