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