Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace
The Buckingham Palace has been the official residence of London of sovereigns of Great Britain from 1837 and it has been developed of a house of city that was owned, of the principle of century XVIII, by the Dukes of Buckingham. The Buckingham Palace is the home of London of the queen and prince Philip. Queen Victoria was the first monarch to take the residence here after thearchitect Juan transformed it to Nash of the house of Buckingham into a palace. In 1845 queen Victoria requested the palace to be extended to make more site for her to children growing of the family of four members. Like part of the alterations, the marble arc, that was original the entrance to the palace, was moved to a new position in the corner of Hyde Park. The palace is also the administrativedirectorates of the monarchy. The queen receives heads who visit of state in the palace and is here that the divided queen carries out garden and grants knighthoods and other honors. The foot keeps from the division of the home, in its distinguishing red túnicas and the black skins of bear, can be seen in having daily of protector outside the palace. The change of the ceremony of the protectiveone now happens only every other day in the winter but he is still daily in the months of the summer. After a castle spoiled by the serious fire of Windsor in 1993 the queen would allow that the quarters of the state of the palace were abiertos in the public for the first time, to help to pay the account of the repair of the castle of windsor.
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House of the parliament - palace ofWestminster
Now known more commonly like the houses the parliament, the palace of Westminster began life as it calls to account real in the 1042 underneath Edward confessor. The main structure to survive several fires, Westminster corridor, was constructed between 1087-1100 and is one of the greater medieval corridors of Europe with a roof without support of hammerbeam. During the catorceno-centurythe corridor contained stores and the shutdowns that sold the wigs, the pens and the other legal equipment and the courts of justice found there. Thomas more, Charles I and those defendant to try to make jump to the parliament (1605) were everything tried in Westminster corridor. After a fire in 1512, Henry VIII decided to leave the palace and both got to be as of this homemade moment to seats ofthe parliament - the common fields and the gentlemen. Nevertheless, it was to suffer of another disastrous fire in 1834 and everything was lost except Westminster corridor and the tower of the jewel. A competition was beginning to reconstruct the whole site. Sir Charles Barry was responsible for the false gothic building that so familiar today has become a signal; including the clock tower thatgreat Horseradish tree contains, the bell that chimes in the hour, and is homemade to the face of greater clock of the country. The members of the public can watch discussions when the parliament is in the session.


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Oxford
Oxford is a located British university city in the county of Oxfordshire, in England, and is the home of the University of Oxford, the oldest university inthe English-speaker world. It is known him like " the city of the needles of ensueño" , expression coined by Matthew Arnold to describe the harmony in the architecture of the university buildings. The occasionally tense relation between " has always been a subject of much interest; the town and academia" , that in 1355 derived in a revolt with several died university students. Unlike its greatrival, Cambridge, Oxford are an industrial city, associated mainly with the automotive industry in the suburb of Cowley.La city it was occupied for the first time at the time of sajones and for the first time is mentioned it in a writing in British chronicles of year 912. The University of the Oxford, oldest of England, is mentioned for the first time in century XII. First colleges of Oxford was...