York
York city walls • York is a city most associated with its Roman heritage. Founded in AD 71, the city was declared the capital of Britannica Inferior, and named Eboracum – the place of the yew tree. Its location was ideal, as it provided good river connections to the North Sea, and the underlying rocks, deposited during the last Ice Age, provided firm foundations. There’s even an original Roman column, discovered during renovations at York Minster, which has survived intact.
The vikings in York • • The earliest Viking buildings in York were single storey dwellings, made out of wattle walls, which had thatched roofs. Once the Vikings were settled in York, they began to establish businesses and many traded from their own homes, using the front of their buildings as a shop front, or the rear as workshops, depending upon the type of business. Because the area was crowded, most Viking houses followed the typical medieval pattern of a long narrow strip, with a large front, going back to further rooms and usually a garden or workshop at the back. Although the natives of York must have been aggravated at the arrival of a conquering force, York does seem to have settled into a relatively peaceful state within a few years of the invasion.
Big Ben • Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster, the Tower of St. Stephen, or simply - Big Ben. That is, without ceremony, called the Londoners his most famous landmark.
"London Eye" • "London Eye" Ferris wheel, open by the third post-war London tysyacheletiya. V ceased to be the UK's largest port, as the equipment is obsolete docks and the port could not handle large cargo ships. Water terminals of London have been moved to the nearby cities Felikstau and Tilbury, and the Docklands area in 1980 was rebuilt - now there are offices and apartment buildings.
transport • Transport in York
Natural History Museum) • Natural History Museum (English Natural History Museum) - one of the three largest museums, located on the street, Exhibition Road, Kensington, London. Collection vlyuchaet more than 70 million items on botany, zoology (including entomology), mineralogy and paleontology. The museum is best known for his collection of dinosaur skeletons in the main hall, including the famous skeleton of Diplodocus (length 26 meters), as well as the interesting mechanical model of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In the zoological part is a 30 meter whale. The collection is a collection of Dr. Hans Sloane (1660 -1753), which includes a herbarium, and skeletons of animals and man, originally nahodivshaesya in Montague House in Bloomsbury in 1756 and belongs to the British Museum. Later in the 1850 s under the leadership of Professor Richard Owen, director of the British Museum Natural History, the question of expansion and the need for its own premises. In 1864 the land was purchased uchatok in South Kensington. The project was started by Captain Francis Fowke and after his death continued by Alfred Waterhouse, imparting a facade of its Roman-Byzantine style. Work began in 1873 and ended in 1880. The museum opened in 1881.
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