London was founded by Romans 2000 years ago and
the city was called Londinium. It is the most important city because it is the
capital of United Kingdom
and because there are Britain's
main port and the centre of business and finance. London
has a population of about 7 million and over 20 million of tourists visit London every year. 11
million of tourists visit London
from abroad. In London
there are over 29 bridges, some for cars, some for trains and some for
pedestrians. The Romans built the first bridge over the river Thames in AD 43
and the people of London
built the second bridge in 1747. The means of transport in London are black taxis,
double dicker red buses, waterbuses, and the Underground that was opened to the
public in 1863.
You go shopping in Harrods and in Covent Garden. Charles Henry Harrods founded Harrods. He
was a grocer in the East end of London.
Harrods is a big and important store. It has 300 departments, 7 floors, over
3000 staff and about 35.000 customers a day. On the other hand in Covent Garden you can find street musicians, buskers,
punk, Mohicans, and in the '60s was good street fashion the miniskirt. Covent
Garden another centre shopping of London
and it was the centre of street life. London entertainment's are cinemas, theatres, and buskers in fact
in London there
are 130 cinemas and over 60 theatres. There are also a lot of park (Hyde Park, St. James Park, Regent's Park . ) In the park you can run, have a pick-nick, walk and relax.
In the evenings you can go at the clubs, discos, pubs,
bar and restaurants.
London is also a cultural centre in fact you can see a
cathedrals (St. Paul Cathedral, Westminster
Abbey . ), churches, museums (British museum), art galleries and palaces (the
houses of Parliament with Big Ben, Buckingham
Palace, the Tower of London
and Trafalgar square). Madame Tussaud is a particular museum. She was a French
Madame brought her exhibition to London
in 1802. Tourists like London because your shopping, clubs, food, building, museums, the culture
and watching the people and all variety of London
in fact Doctor Johnson, a famous English writer said "When a man is
tired of London,
he is tired of Life"
