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*Tourist cities in London

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*Bath is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in southwest England. It is located 156 km west of London and twenty kilometers southeast of Bristol. The city's population is 83,992 inhabitants.

Bath

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*Cambridge *Cambridge is a non-metropolitan district in the

UK, a very old English university town and the county of Cambridgeshire, on the banks of the River Cam.

It is approximately eighty kilometers of London and several surrounding towns and villages. His fame owes to the University of Cambridge, which includes the Cavendish Laboratories (denominated in honor of Henry Cavendish), Addenbrooke's Hospital. the chapel choir of King's College and University Library. The latter two buildings stand out from the rest of the city. In the city also is a campus of Anglia Ruskin University.

According to the 2001 census, the city has 108,863 inhabitants1 (of which 22,153 are students).

The name of the city means "bridge [river] Cam ‘.

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*Canterbury

*The City of Canterbury is a non-metropolitan district with city status in Kent County, England. The district capital is Canterbury.

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*Winchester *Winchester is a city

located at the southern tip of England. It is the administrative capital of the county of Hampshire. It has a population of 35,200 inhabitants. It is the seat of local government's 12th district.

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*Oxford

*Oxford is a British university town located in the county of Oxfordshire, England, and is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world.

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*Portsmouth *Portsmouth is a

city and unitary authority in South East England, in the UK. It belongs to the ceremonial county of Hampshire.

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*Southampton*Southampton /

saʊθæmptən or saʊθhæmptən / is a city and unitary authority in southern England and one of the main ports in the UK.

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*south downs national park

* The South Downs National Park is England's newest National Park, having become fully operational on 1 April 2011. The park, covering an area of 1,627 square kilometers (628 sq. mi) in southern England, stretches for 140 kilometers (87 mi) from Winchester in the west to Eastbourne in the east through the counties of Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex. The national park covers the chalk hills of the South Downs (which on the English Channel coast form the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters and Beachy Head) and a substantial part of a separate physiographic region, the western Weald, with its heavily wooded sandstone and clay hills and vales. The South Downs Way spans the entire length of the park and is the only National Trail that lies wholly within a national park.

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* Chinatown Tower of London* The British Museum *Museum of London*National Portrait Gallery* London eye*National Gallery* Tower Bridge*Big Ben

*Houses of Parliament*Trafalgar Square*Victoria and Albert Museum*Crystal palace park*Welcome Collection*Bushy Park *London Wall

*Tourist cities in London

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*Chinatown Tower of London

*Chinatown is Chinatown of London, and is located in Soho, in the City of Westminster district of Greater London. It occupies the area in and around Gerrard Street. It contains a series of, Chinese restaurants bakeries, supermarkets, souvenir shops, and other Chinese companies.

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*The British Museum

The British Museum is a Museum of the city of London, UK, one of the most important and visited Museum in the Word. Its Collection cover various fields of human knowledge, such as history, archeology, ethnography and art.

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*Museum of London

* The Museum of London documentary history of London from prehistory to the present. The museum is located near Barbican center, as part of the striking Barbican complex of buildings created in the 1960s and 1970s as part of an innovative restoration of an area of the City punished by the bombings. It is a few minutes walk north of St Paul's Cathedral and dominates the remains of the Roman wall was found on the edge of London's old town, known as the City, today the business district. The museum is mainly the social history of London and its inhabitants through history. The management of the museum is in charge of the ministry.

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*National Portrait Gallery

*The National Portrait Gallery (in Spanish: National Portrait Gallery) is one of the most famous museums in London. Not to be confused with the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, United States.

*His collection consists of portraits of prominent figures in history; the building is just behind the National Gallery.

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London eye

*The London Eye ('London Eye'), also known as Millennium Wheel ('Noria Millennium'), is an observation wheel 135 m located on the western end of Jubilee Gardens, on the South Bank of the Thames, district London Lambeth bridges between Westminster and Hungerford. The wheel is next to County Hall and in front of the offices of the Ministry of Defence.

*Works are completed in 1999 and opened to the public in March 2000, it was the largest in the world until the opening of the Star of Nanchang in May 2006 and subsequent Singapore Flyer in 2008.

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*National Gallery

* The National Gallery and National Gallery is the main art museum in London, located on the northern edge of Trafalgar Square in the municipality of Westminster, in the center of Greater London. Inaugurated in 1824, has a collection of over 2,300 paintings, mostly European, from a broad historical period between 1250 and 1900. For its content is an art gallery and not a generalist museum, it does not exhibit sculptures or other art forms, which are displayed in other important museums in the capital. Sculptures and decorative arts are at the Victoria and Albert Museum; The British Museum houses archeology and drawings, mainly; and art after 1900 is on display at Tate Modern. Some British authors paintings are exhibited in the National Gallery, but the National Collection of British Art is mainly concentrated in the Tate Britain museum specifically dedicated to the art of the country.

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*Tower Bridge

*The Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge in English, is a drawbridge located in London over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name.

*The bridge is maintained by Bridge House Estates, a company non-profit under the trusteeship of Corporation of London, in January the city council of the City of London.

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*Big Ben

*Big Ben is the name that is known to the great bell of the clock located on the northwest side of the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the UK Parliament in London, 1 and popularly by extension it is also used to name the clock tower. Its official name was Tower2 Clock until June 26, 2012, in honor of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, it was decided that the tower would be renamed Elizabeth Tower (Torre Isabel) .3

*The tower houses the four clock faces world's largest, and is the third highest tower clock world.4 celebrated its 150th anniversary on May 31, 2009.5 and carried out various acts of conmemoración.6 the tower was completed in 1858 and the clock became operational on September 7, 1859.

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*Houses of Parliament

* The Palace of Westminster, also known as The Parliament ( 'Parliament') houses the two chambers of Parliament of the United Kingdom (the House of Lords and House of Commons). The palace, which is one of the four places World Heritage City of London, declared by UNESCO in 1987, is located on the north bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, near other government buildings Whitehall.

* The palace initially served as a royal residence but no monarch has lived in it since the sixteenth century. Most of the present structure dates back to the nineteenth century, the date on which the palace was rebuilt after a fire in 1834 that destroyed most of the building. The architects responsible for the reconstruction of the palace were Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin. The building is an example of the Gothic Revival style. One of the most notable features of the palace is the clock tower, another tourist attraction that houses the bell known as Big Ben, name mistakenly assigned to the clock tower.

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*Trafalgar Square

*Trafalgar Square ( "Trafalgar Square" in Spanish) is a square in central London (United Kingdom), built to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) in which the British navy defeated the French armed and Spanish off Cape Trafalgar, Los Canos de Meca, village in the municipality of Vejer de la Frontera (now belonging to Barbate after its segregation in 1940), Cadiz, Spain. The original name was William IV Square, but George Ledwell Taylor suggested changing the name.

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*Victoria and Albert Museum

*The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as V & A), National Museum of Art and Design (in English: The Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museum of Art and Design) ?, is a London museum mainly devoted to the arts decorative and fine arts. It is located on the corner of Cromwell Gardens and Exhibition Road in South Kensington, in west London. It has great resources to design students as it contains the British national collection of applied arts.

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*Crystal palace park

*Crystal Palace Park is a Victorian pleasure ground, used for cultural and sporting events. It is located in the south-east London suburb of Crystal Palace, which was in turn named after The Crystal Palace which had been moved from Hyde Park, London after the 1851 Great Exhibition and rebuilt with some modifications and enlargements to form the centrepiece of the pleasure ground, before being destroyed by fire in 1936. The park features full-scale models of dinosaurs in a landscape, a maze, lakes and a concert bowl.

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*Welcome Collection

*Welcome Collection is a museum based at 183 Euston Road, London, displaying an unusual mixture of medical artifacts and original artworks exploring 'ideas about the connections between medicine, life and art'.[1] Founded in 2007, Welcome Collection now attracts over 500,000 visitors per year and is advertised as 'the free destination for the incurably curious'. The venue offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibitions and collections, lively public events, the world-renowned Welcome Library, a café, a bookshop and conference facilities.

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*Bushy Park

*Bushy Park is the second largest park of the Royal Parks of London. It is located in the county of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, near Kingston upon Thames, Teddington and Hampton Court Park, part of Hampton Court Palace.

*Most of this park of 450 hectares is freely accessible to the public, although there are enclosed areas that preserve wildlife in the area. Herds of wild deer are one of the attractions of the park.

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*London Wall

*London's Wall was a defensive wall built by the Romans around Londinium, its strategic port city on the River Thames in England. Around the area that roughly corresponds to the current City of London.