United Kingdom - tourist attractions (page 12)

	The Mall	The Mall is a road located near the centre of London in the City of Westminster. It leads to the Buckingham Palac, running from Admiralty Arch on Trafalgar Square to Victoria Memorial standing in front of the palace. It was built at the beginning of the 20th century as a special road used for ceremo...
	Tower Bridge	The Tower Bridge is a bascule bridge over the River Thames in London, situated close to the Tower of London, the medieval fortress of the city.It was designed by the architect Sir Horace Jones in collaboration with engineer John Wolfe-Barry between 1884 and 1894. The construction of the bridge was n...
	Picadilly Circus	Piccadilly Circus is a central square in the London Borough of the City of Westminster. It is famous because is the intersection of two of the most important streets of the city, Picadilly Street and Regent Street, one of the most commercial streets of London.Built in 1819 in order to connect these ...
	Her Majesty's Theatre	Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, in Haymarket, City of Westminster, London. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre. In the early decades o...
	Natural History Museum	The Natural History Museum is one of three museums located on Exhibition Road in London (next to the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). The main façade of the museum is on Cromwell Road. The museum holds five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Zoology and, perhaps th...
	St. Katharine Docks	St Katharine Docks, located between the Tower Bridge and Tower of London in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, is a marina as well as a shopping and entertainment area. The docks were built between 1825 and 1828 on the site of the medieval hospital of St Katharine, after which they took their n...
	Sir John Soane's Museum	The Sir John Soane's Museum, often shortened to Soane Museum, is a museum of architecture in London, located in the Holborn district of central London, in front of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the largest public square in London. Formerly, the museum was home to the neoclassical architect John Soane, who ...
	Palace Theatre	The Palace Theatre is a West End theatre in London, located in the district of Westminster, at the junction of Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road. It has a capacity of 1,400 people and specializes in music and dance performances.The Palace Theatre was inaugurated in 1891 as the Royal English ...
	Hammersmith Bridge	The Hammersmith Bridge is a suspension bridge across the River Thames in London, located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The bridge, built by the engineer William Tierney Clark in 1824, is one of the oldest bridges in London. Due to heavy traffic, it had to be reconstructed in 1884 ...
	Covent Garden	Covent Garden is a district of the City of Westminster in London. Formerly, this place was an industrial area with many warehouses and a fruit and vegetable market located in the central square. Today, it is a well-known shopping district and a popular tourist destination. It contains the Central Ma...