lucie syrová. * general facts * history * culture * parks * shopping, sport
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Lucie Syrová
*London – general facts
*Obsah
*General facts
*History
*Culture
*Parks
*Shopping, sport
*General facts
*the capital city of England and the United Kingdom
*over 8 million residents
*the river Thames
*the world's most-visited city
*more than 300 languages spoken within its boundaries
*the oldest underground railway network in the world
*History
*43 AD founded by the Romans as Londinium (the City)
*1340s the Black Death – nearly a third of its population died
*the Great Plague of 1665–1666 – killed a fifth of the population
*1666 the Great Fire of London
*the world's largest city from about 1831 to 1925
*since the 1940s home to a large number of immigrants
*Culture
*the West End – shopping and entertainment (A.L. Webber)
*The National Gallery – Trafalgar Square
*The British Museum – established in 1753
*Tate Modern – most-visited modern art gallery in the world
*Royal Albert Hall – concert hall
*Shakespeare’s Globe
*Madame Tussauds
*Parks
*8 Royal Parks of London
*former royal hunting grounds, now open to the public
*St. James’s Park – Buckingham Palace
*Hyde Park – Speaker’s corner
*Regent’s Park – London ZOO
* shopping*Oxford Street
*Harrods – over 90,000 m2 of selling space
*Covent Garden
*Camden Market
*sports
*Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Westham
*Wembley Stadium
*Wimbledon
*Boat race – Oxford x Cambridge
"You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford."
Samuel Johnson, 1777
*Seznam použitých zdrojů
*London. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
*Photos
* London Bridge tube. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Bridge_tube_stn_Jubilee_roundel.JPG
* T2C london map. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T2C_london_map.jpeg
* YORICK PETEY. Nationalgallery. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nationalgallery.jpg
* SMITH. Speaker's Corner. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker%27s_Corner_-_geograph.org.uk_-_240724.jpg
*MIKEGR. HarrodsDay. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrodsDay.jpg
* SAEBHIAR. Arsenal Crest 1990-1993. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arsenal_Crest_1990-1993.svg