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1、Made by Anna and Damon,The charming London,London Eye,London Eye, British Airways London Eye, also known as the full name of the Millennium Wheel, is located in the River Thames in London, it is one of Londons landmarks, but also attract visitors to Londons tourist spots. London Eye opened in late 1
2、999, the total height of 135 meters (443 feet). London Eye ride a total of 32 tanks, all with air conditioning and can not open the window. Each cabin can take about 15 passengers, rotation speed of about 0.26 meters per second, which takes around 30 minutes .,What we can see from London Eye?,London
3、 Eye rely on the river Thames .,1.the river Thames,The Palace of Westminster,The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. the Palace lies on the Middlesex bank of the River Thames in the City of
4、 Westminster, in central London.,3.The Big Ben,Big Ben is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world. It is a landmark of London.,The Victoria Tower was completed in May 1860 and designed to house Parliaments historic records.,4.The Victoria Tow
5、er,Buckingham Palace,Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch.Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality. It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing and
6、crisis.,The Rooms of Buckingham Palace,John Nash reserved one of his most original ceiling designs for the White Drawing Room whilst the impressive pilasters incorporate a Garter Star and a winged motif which also appears on doors throughout the other State Rooms. At each end of the room two pairs o
7、f ebony-veneered cabinets with gilt-bronze mounts are built into the wall beneath tall mirrors. One of them is incorporated into a concealed door . When opened, the mirror and cabinet open as one to to provide members of the Royal Family with a discreet means of entering the state rooms from the pri
8、vate rooms beyond. The room is used for receptions and audiences and has been used as the backdrop for a number of formal photographic portraits of members of the Royal Family.,The White Drawing Room,The Blue Drawing Room,The Blue Drawing Room is one of the finest rooms in Buckingham Palace and one
9、of the most magnificent examples of Georgian sumptuousness in decoration. George IV intended this room as a ballroom, but it was superseded in that function by Queen Victorias Ballroom in the south-west wing of the Palace. Today guests gather here for drinks before large luncheon parties and grand S
10、tate and diplomatic occasions. The room is 21 metres (68 feet) long and divided into bays by giant Corinthian columns. The Blue Drawing Room was first known as the South Drawing Room, and its original decoration was a symphony of red, with porphyry scagliola columns, crimson velvet curtains and figu
11、red-silk wall hangings. The blue flock wallpaper now in the room was hung by Queen Mary in the early twentieth century, while the Corinthian columns were re-painted to resemble onyx in the reign of Queen Victoria.,The Ballroom,The Ballroom is the largest room at Buckingham Palace. It was added by Qu
12、een Victoria and is used for ceremonies such as investitures and state banquets. This picture dates from 1856. The polychrome colour scheme has been replaced by mainly white decoration with gold details and red upholstery,The State Dining Room,This beautiful room is sumptuously furnished and lit wit
13、h crystal chandeliers hung from a ceiling that is decorated with three shades of gold leaf. Silk lined walls are adorned with mirrors and paintings by Hondecoeter and Snyders that are rare and particularly striking. This splendid dining room, modelled on the Ballroom at Buckingham Palace, can accomm
14、odate up to 120 for dinner, 160 in a theatre setting or up to 250 people as a reception room.,The British Museum,The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Mo
15、ntagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Until 1997, when the British
16、 Library opened to the public, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. Its present chairman is Sir John Boyd and its director is Neil MacGregor.,The Rosetta Stone,The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian grano
17、diorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portionDemotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek. Because it presents essentially the same text in all thr
18、ee scripts (with some minor differences between them), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.,The Admonitions Scroll is a Chinese narrative painting on silk that is traditionally ascribed to Gu Kaizhi . The painting, which is now held at the British Museum in London
19、, England, is one of the earliest extant examples of a Chinese handscroll painting, and is renowned as one of the most famous Chinese paintings in the world,The Admonitions Scroll,The Portland Vase,The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, currently dated to between AD 5 and AD 25, It is made o
20、f violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo depicting seven figures (humans and gods). . Since 1810 the vase has been kept almost continuously in the British Museum in London. It was bought by the museum in 1945 .,Colossal bust of Ramesses II,The British Museum, Ro
21、om 4 - Colossal bust of Ramesses II, the Younger Memnon.From the Ramesseum, Thebes, Egypt. 19th Dynasty, about 1250 BC.One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum.Weighing 7.25 tons, this fragment of his statue was cut from a single block of two-coloured granite. He is show
22、n wearing the nemes head-dress surmounted by a cobra diadem.,Brick Lane,restaurant,Line Brick is famous for its fantastic Indian restaurants,Modern Restaurant and Pizzeria is famous for its homemade Italian dinners and pasta dishes, as well as our Old Fashioned Brick-Oven-Pizza. Long in history, Mod
23、ern has been serving Westchester County since 1920. Originally a bread company, Modern evolved into one of Westchester Countys first pizzerias, and today is a favorite spot for many Westchester residents to enjoy home-made food and great pizza in a casual, friendly environment.,Londons Brick Lane Ma
24、rket is a traditional flea-market with a wide array of goods on sale including vintage clothes, furniture, bric-a-brac, music, and so much more. The market is spread out along Brick Lane and spills out onto the side streets. At the bottom of Brick Lane youll find some wonderful fabric stores selling gorgeous Indian sari silks. Around the middle it gets very trendy around the Old Truman Brewery, then at the top its more junk and anything for sale. Yes, I have seen single shoes on sale here!,Brick Line market,The end,