伦敦十大景点英文介绍.ppt

7. St Pauls Cathedral * 10 Places of London 1.The London Eye 2.Madame Tussaudˊs ˊ 3. 3.Brick Lane 4.Westminster abbey 5.National Gallery 6. Hyde Park 7.St PaulCathedral 8.BuckinghamPalace 9. Windsor Castle 10.TheBritishMuseum 1.London Eye The London Eye, which is 450 feet in height above the Thames River, is the world’s biggest spinning structure. It is one hundred feet taller than Big Ben, and weighing 1,600 tons. It was built to celebrate the year 2000. Possibly building such a big spinning structure suggested that people longed for bigger and better things in the future. 2.MADAME TUSSAUDS Madame Tussauds. where you can see some movie stars, singers and sports players. Yet this place is as star-studded as the red carpet of the Grammy Awards She was born in French ,her uncle taught her craft of waxing and she had natural talent. Finally she left French in order to establish a wax exhibition in London 3. BRICK LANE Brick Lane is a street in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It runs from Swanfield Street in the northern part of Bethnal Green, crosses Bethnal Green Road, passes through Spitalfields and is linked to Whitechapel High Street to the south by the short stretch of Osborn Street. Today, it is the heart of the citys Bangladeshi-Sylheti community and is known to some as Banglatown.[1] It is famous for its many curry houses. 4.Westminster abbey Westminster Abbey Formally titled The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, this mainly Gothic church in London is the traditional place of coronation and burial site for English monarchs. First built by Edward the Confessor between 1045 - 1065 in the Norman style, it replaced an earlier church on the same site. It was built as an abbey for the Benedictine monks and was consecrated on December 28, 1065. It was rebuilt in the Gothic style between 1245 - 1517, with Henry VII adding a perpendicular style chapel in 1503. 5.National Gallery 　The National Gallery houses o