TOUR GUIDE 4: TRAFALGAR TOUR GUIDE 4: TRAFALGAR SQUARE & STRANDSQUARE & STRAND

INDICE● TRAFALGAR SGUARE:NELSON'S COLUMN● TRAFALGAR SQUARE:NATIONAL GALLERY

● TRAFALGAR SQUARE:NATIONAL PORTRAIR GALLERY

● COVENT GARDEN● THE TATE MODERN

● THE GLOBE THEATRE● SOHO

● OXFORD STREET

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Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in central London built to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. The monument was constructed between 1840 and 1843 to a design by William Railton at a cost of £47,000. It is a column of the Corinthian order built from granite and it measures 52 meters.

Nelson's Column

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The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square in London. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,000 Western European paintings dating from the Middle Ages century to 1900. Its collection belongs to the public of the United Kingdom and entry to the main collection is free of charged. And there are paintings of the most famous artists

National Gallery

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Founded in 1856, The National Portrait Gallery is home to the largest collection of portraiture in the world, featuring famous British men and women who have created history from the Middle Ages until the present day painted by some of the greatest painters in the history of art. There are over 10,000 portraits in this London gallery’s primary collection.National Portair Gallery

COVENT GARDEN

Covent Garden is a district in London on the eastern fringes of the West End, It is associated with the former fruit and vegetable market in the central square, now a popular shopping and tourist site, The district is divided, the north of which is given over to independent shops centred while the south contains the most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and the London Transport Museum.

THE TATE MODERNThe Tate Modern is the national

gallery of international modern art for Britain. Based in a spectacular disused power station in the heart of London, Tate Modern was created in 2000 and has since become world renowned as a centre for modern art from around the world. The collection at Tate Modern includes all the major modern art movements from Fauvism onwards. It features Picasso and Matisse, Dali, Ernst and Mirò. and it including Minimal art and Conceptual art.

THE GLOBE THEATRE

The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, and was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613.[4] A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614 and closed in 1642.[5] A modern reconstruction of the Globe, named "Shakespeare's Globe", opened in 1997.

SOHO

Soho is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, notable for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, and for the wide variety of stores and shops ranging from boutiques to outlets of upscale national and international chain stores. The area's history is an archetypal example of inner-city regeneration and gentrification, encompassing socio-economic, cultural, political and architectural developments.

OXFORD STREET

Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, and as of 2011 had approximately 300 shops