Great Britain
Buckingham Palace
Buckingham Palace is located opposite the streets of Pall Mall, and the white marble monument with a gold Queen Victoria. When the Queen is in the palace roof develops a royal flag. Her ancestor, King George IV, insisted that the palace was built by architect John Nash. The cost of construction has reached 700, 000 pounds by the use of such excesses as the 500 block of marble veined Carrara. After 3 years, in 1837. , When Queen Victoria came to the throne, the palace was almost impossible to live. Most of the 1, 000 windows would not open.
By 1853 was built ballroom. King Edward VII was born in this palace in 1841. and here he died in 1910. Despite the exuberant apartment of the palace, which houses many family jewels, not everyone who lived there were happy. In his memoirs, the Duke of Windsor, wrote that the great palace, "with its great halls and endless corridors filled with the smell of mildew appeared, which I still feel every time I go into it. "
Private apartments of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are now in the northern wing of the building overlooking the Green Park (Green Park). In the summer palace is visited by 30, 000 guests, that participate in receptions in the royal garden, where there is a lake and waterfalls. Complete picture of the natural world flamingo birds, which do not violate the peace of the king, even helicopters circling over the garden. Buckingham Palace - a study of the monarchy. Tasks of the staff range from detention to the palace banquet for the heads of other states ambassadors and awards ceremony. From this beginning, many royal ceremonies, for example.
Tower of London
The Tower of London was a fortress and palace, and royal jewelry store, and an arsenaland a mint and a prison, and the observatory, and a zoo, and a place that attractstourists. "At first the royal family lived in a highly secure White Tower, the thickness of the walls which I 5 feet up. Socalled "traitors gate, " leading to the river, are reminiscent of the past, when before they were famous pri soners sentenced to death.
Among the prisonerswere Sir Walter Raleigh, who spent 13 years in the Tower, and Queen Anne Boleyn. Butthe future Queen Elizabeth 1 was released and crowned. Based on documentary evidence of the sufferings of the prisoners in the days of the Reformation, child abusehas become the norm.
collection of royal jewelry was pulled down, but with the return ofthe monarchy dynasty of the Stuarts revived the original concept of the museum to commemorate the military achievements King and country. in 1834. royal menagerie was moved to the zoo, and were left alone in the Tower ravens.
Giants Causeway
Tightly sealed to each other hexagonal basalt colu mns of Giant's Causeway
In the early days of the Atlantic Ocean, where recently appeared dispersed continentsstraits between North America and Europe continued to expand, the location of the North Atlantic to determine, but its banks have yet been formed and continuallytransformed. West coast of Greenland was separated from Canada, about 80 million years ago, but the south-east coast is still firmly connected to the opposite north-western coast of the British Isles.
After about 20 million years, they began to disperse, and where are now the Isle of Skye, Rum, Mull, Arran, Scotland, Ardnamurchan on the Cape and the south - in Ireland, the Sliev Gulon, Karlinford and Missouri, formed the major active volcanoes. Worth, perhaps, to look at these ancient volcanoes at the time of their splendor, but the mosteloquent testimony to this change are the basalt sheets or plateau.
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