Great Britain

National Gallery
The National Gallery, London, houses one of the greatest collections of European painting in the world. These pictures belong to the public and entrance to see them is free.


The Tower of London

Founded nearly a millennium ago and expanded upon over the centuries since, the Tower of London has protected, housed, imprisoned and been for many the last sight they saw on Earth.

It has been the seat of British government and the living quarters of monarchs ... the site of renown political intrigue, and the repository of the Crown Jewels ... It has housed lions, bears, and (to this day) flightless ravens ... not to mention notorious traitors and framed members of court, lords and ministers, clergymen and knights.

Westminster Abbey

There has been a place of worship on this site for well over a thousand years, and every monarch since William the Conqueror in 1066, bar two, have been crowned under it\'s roof in an elaborate ceremony that is steeped in history and tradition. Westminster Abbey, or to call it by its correct name, The Collegiate Church of St Peter, Westminster, is unusual amongst churches in England in being a \'Royal Peculiar\'. This means it is under the jurisdiction of the crown and not within any diocese. This was an extremely important privilege in the Middle Ages as it gave the Abbey full control over its finances and day to day running and it soon grew into one of the wealthiest religious houses in the country.

Westminster Abbey has survived them all. It\'s an architectural masterpiece of the thirteenth to sixteenth centuries and contains countless memorials and effigies to the famous and great of this nation. Over three thousand people are either buried or memorialised in Westminster Abbey from Medieval Kings and their Queens, to the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, which in recent times has become a place of pilgrimage.



Buckingham palace

Buckingham House was built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1703. George III purchased the house in 1762 and used it as one of the royal family\'s London homes. George IV employed John Nash to build a new palace round the old house. Nash designed the building with Marble Arch as the main entrance. Marble Arch was later moved to Hyde Park. It was not until 1837 that Queen Victoria made Buckingham Palace the royal family\'s principal London residence.

Madame tussaud´s museum

World renowned Madame Tussaud\'s Wax Museum, a leader in entertainment for over 200 years, has created the city\'s most exciting new attraction in the heart of Times Square, New York. You will mix, mingle and rub elbows with an exceptional showcase of incredibly lifelike wax figures! Everyone is sure to have a close encounter with their favorite celebrity in this dynamic, interactive attraction, a veritable who\'s who of entertainment, music, sports, politics and world history.

Everyone from Woody Allen to Bette Midler and Brad Pitt to Yoko Ono will be dishing out the latest gossip and outrageous stories at a star-studded opening night party, hosted by the fabulous and flamboyant RuPaul!

Stand shoulder-to-shoulder with such world leaders, pioneers and distinguished people as the Dalai Lama, John F.Kennedy, Martin Luther King.

Rub elbows with icons from the worlds of music, sports and entertaimnet like Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, The Beatles and John Wayne to name a few.

Take a magical ride high above the city in vertual handsome cab and live those moments that could only happen in New York. \"Be there\" for major events in New York\'s history, and to cap it off: New Year\'s Eve in Times Square.



Piccadilly circus

Piccadilly Circus is the best known sight in London, known all over the world, Piccadilly Circus, with its spectacular display of neon advertising signs, marks the entrance to the capital\'s liveliest entertainment district, with its theatres, cinemas, clubs, pubs and restaurants.

Piccadilly Circus is so named after a speciality of a local 17th Century tailor, Robert Baker, who sold stiff collars known as \'picadils\'.

The heart is a bronze fountain topped by a figure of a winged archer.

The statue is popularly called EROS, the pagan god of love, but it was in fact designed in the 19th century as a symbol of christian charity - a monument to Lord Shaftesbury, a philanthropist. It is one of the symbols of London. The actual figure rises above a fountain, which is made in bronze, but Eros is made out of aluminium, at that time a rare and novel material.

The junction, originally part of John Nash\'s master plan for Regent Street, has been considerably altered over the years. Part of Piccadilly Circus; once a traffic island, has been pedestrianised and the area now features several shopping malls.