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Piccadilly Circus:
Piccadilly Circus is a famous road junction and public space of Londo's West End in the City of Westminster, built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with the major shopping street of Piccadilly.
Piccadilly now links directly to the theatres on Shaftesbury Avenue, as well as the Haymarket, Conventry Street onwards to Leicester Square, and Glasshouse Street. The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting place and a tourist attraction in its own right.


Admiralty Arch:Leading from the South-West corner of Trafalgar Square into The Mall is Admiralty Arch, commissioned by King Edward VII in memory of his mother Queen Victoria. It was designed by Sir Aston Webb (who also worked on Buckingham Palace and the Victoria and Albert Museum) and was completed in 1911. Admiralty Arch is a large office building in London which incorporates an archway providing road and pedestrian access.

Oxford Street:Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, England. There are 548 shops in Oxford Street; it is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as the most dense.The street was formerly part of the London-Oxford road which began at Newgate, City of London, when it was known as Oxford Road. Today the road forms part of the A40, although, like many roads in central London which are not now intended as through traffic routes, it is not signposted with the road number.

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the South Kensington area. It was built to fulfill the vision of Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband) of a 'Central Hall', so, first, The Hall was appointed The Central Hall of Arts and Sciences but the name was changed by the Queen Victoria when Prince Albert died.

The Royal College of Music was founded by the Prince of Wales in 1882. It is one of the world’s leading conservatoires providing specialized musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers, conductors and composers.

Imperial College London is a public and very prestigious research university specialized in business, engineering, medicine and science. The Imperial College was founded in 1907 with the merger of City and Guilds College, Royal School of Mines and Royal College of Science. Imperial's main campus is located in the South Kensington.

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ALBERT MEMORIAL- HARRODS- ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART

The Albert Memorial is situated in Kensington Gardens. It was done by Queen Victoria in memory of her dead husband, Prince Albert who died in 1861.

Harrods is a very big department located  in Knightsbridge, between London and Chelsea. The store occupies 20,000 m2 and is selling space in over 330 departments.

Harrods was founded by Charles Henry Harrod who set up his first shop in 1824, at the age of 25. During its history, the store has had a total of five owners. Nowadays Mohamed Al-Fayed, an Egyptian, is the owner.

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts (M.A.), Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy. The University is located in South Kensington and Battersea. The College has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of architecture, automotive design, photography, industrial design, communication design, interaction design, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing. This college has about 900 students and the statistics say than the majority of them gained work immediately. It was found in 1837.

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The Victoria Memorial is a sculpture in London, placed at the centre of Queen's Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace. It was completed in 1911, the sculptor being Sir Thomas Brock. The surround was constructed by the architect Sir Aston Webb, from 2,300 tons of white marble. It is a Grade I listed building.

Green Park (officially The Green Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London. Covering 19 hectares (47 acres), it lies between London's Hyde Park and St. James's Park. Together with Kensington Gardens and the gardens of Buckingham Palace, these parks form an almost unbroken stretch of open land reaching from Whitehall and Victoria station to Kensington and Notting Hill.

St James's Street is one of the principal streets in the central London district of St James's. It runs from Piccadilly downhill to St James's Palace and Pall Mall. The main gatehouse of the palace is at the southern end of the road, and in the 17th century Clarendon House faced down the street across Piccadilly, located where Albemarle Street is now situated.

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BUCKINHAM PALACE

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch. Located in the City of Westminster, the palace is a setting for state occasions and royal hospitality.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

It was subsequently acquired by George III in 1761 as a private residence for Queen Charlotte, and known as "The Queen's House". During the 19th century it was enlarged, principally by architects John Nash and Edward Blore, forming three wings around a central courtyard. Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.

The state rooms, used for official and state entertaining, are open to the public each year for most of August and September, as part of the Palace's Summer Opening.

THE MALL

The Mall in central London is the road running from Buckingham Palace at its western end to Admiralty Arch and on to Trafalgar Square at its eastern end, where it crosses Spring Gardens, which was where the Metropolitan Board of Works and, for a number of years, the London County Council were based. The surface of The Mall is colored red which gives the effect of a giant red carpet leading up to Buckingham Palace. This color was obtained using synthetic iron oxide pigment from The Deanshanger Oxide Works, which was created using The Deanox Process devised by head chemist Ernest Lovell.

The Mall was created as a ceremonial route in the early 20th century, matching the creation of similar ceremonial routes in other cities, such as Berlin, Mexico City, Oslo, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna and Washington D.C.