The British Museum is a museum in London, founded in 1753. It contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities and (until 1997) one of the largest libraries in the world: British Library.

The British Museum's collection of seven million objects representing the rich history of human cultures mirrors the city of London's global variety. It includes monuments of primitive and antique culture, Ancient East culture, the richest collection of engravings, pictures, ceramics, coins.


The British Museum library is now named the British national library. It was formed in 1973 from the British Museum library and other national collections. It has a copy of every book that is printed in the English language, so that there are more than six million books there. They receive nearly two thousand books and papers daily. The British Museum Library has a very big collection of printed books and manuscripts, both old and new. You can see beautifully illustrated old manuscripts which they keep in glass cases. You can also find there some of the first English books printed by Caxton. Caxton was a printer who lived in the fifteenth century. He made the first printing-press in England. In the reading-room of the British Museum many famous men have read and studied. Charles Dickens, a very popular English writer and the author of 'David Copperfield', 'Oliver Twist', 'Dombey and Son' and other books, spent a lot of time in the British Museum Library.

In no other museum can the visitor see so clearly the history of what it is to be human.

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Buckingham Palace, London

Buckingham Palace’s 19 state rooms are open to visitors during August and September while the Queen makes her annual visit to Balmoral.

The State rooms house some of the Royal family’s greatest treasures including paintings by Rembrandt, Rubens, Poussin and Canaletto. They are also exquisitely furnished with some of the finest French and English furniture.

Visit the spectacular Palace Ballroom and see the traditional horseshoe-shaped table lavishly decorated for a State Banquet. On display you can see the silver gilt from the Grand service, first used to celebrate the birthday of George III in 1811 as well as jewelled cups, ivory tankards, chased dishes, sconces, shields and basins.

The end of the tour takes you along the south side of the Palace’s gardens with views of the west front of the Palace and the lake.

The Changing of the Guard takes place in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace at 11.30 every day in summer, every other day in winter, and lasts about 45 minutes.

The New Guard marches to the Palace from Wellington Barracks with a Guards band, the Old Guard hands over in a ceremony during which the sentries are changed and then returns to barracks. The New Guard then marches to St James's Palace leaving the detachment at Buckingham Palace.

The nearest tube stations are Green Park, Victoria, Hyde Park Corner and St. James's Park.

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.

The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens; although often still assumed to be part of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens has been technically separate since 1728, when Queen Caroline made a division between the two. Hyde Park is 142 hectares (350 acres)[1] and Kensington Gardens is 111 hectares (275 acres),[2] giving an overall area of 253 hectares (625 acres), making the combined area larger than the Principality of Monaco (196 hectares or 484 acres), but smaller than New York City's Central Park (341 hectares or 843 acres). To the southeast (but outside of the park) is Hyde Park Corner. Although, during daylight, the two parks merge seamlessly into each other, Kensington Gardens closes at dusk but Hyde Park remains open throughout the year from 5 am until midnight.

The COLLOSSEO (Colosseum) — the grandiose amphitheatre erected in Ancient Rome during an epoch Flaviev.
The Collosseo building collapsed: frequent earthquakes, fires, the barbarous relation of people. During an epoch of the Middle Ages it was used as a stone quarry: stone blocks took for constructions of palaces and churches is there was a period of the greatest destructions. Already during antique times the Collosseo was repeatedly restored, reconstructed. Only from the beginning 19 century began to be engaged purposefully in preservation of a monument and to spend archeological excavations.
The Collosseo — construction in the form of an ellipse: length of 188 m, width of 156 m, height of 48,5 m.
Average part of a building, arena (from an armour. "arena" — "sand"), covered with sand and intending for gladiatorial fights, persecution of animals, under the form represented an ellipse (length of 86 m, width 54). From lateral aspect the Collosseo — четырехъярусное a building. External parts of the Collosseo have been built from травертина, internal — from a tufa, a brick, marble, concrete and a tree. External parts of the Collosseo have been built from травертина, internal — from a tufa, a brick, marble, concrete and a tree. The Collosseo — an outstanding monument of architecture of Ancient Rome, the largest amphitheatre of a classical antiquity, a symbol of greatness and power of imperial Rome.

The Houses of Parliament

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