Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Arantxa Paños 1r B

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.

Sunday, February 6, 2011

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.
Caterina Solé. 1st Batx B