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,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,1.The Buckingham Palace,2.The Tower Bridge,3.The Big Ban,Buckingham Palace,Its an earlier house owned by the Dukes of,Buckingham,in 1703 and also called Buckingham Palace,which located in the,City of Westminster,.,The house which forms the architectural core of the present palace.,Buckingham Palace is a symbol and home of the British monarchy,an art gallery and tourist attraction.The palace also houses the offices of the,Royal Household,and is the workplace of 450 people,Buckingham Palace,is the official residence and office of the,British monarch,.,The,palace,is a setting for state occasions and royal,hospitality,.It has been a focus for the British people at times of national rejoicing and crisis.,Originally known it was a large,townhouse,built for the,Duke of Buckingham,in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.,It was subsequently acquired by,George III,in 1761as a private residence for,Queen Charlotte,and known as The Queens House.,Buckingham Palace finally became the official royal palace of the British monarch on the accession of,Queen Victoria,in 1837,.,The last major structural additions were made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.,Queen Victoria,the first monarch to reside at Buckingham Palace,moved into the newly completed palace upon her accession in 1837,.,However,the palace chapel was destroyed by a German bomb in World War II,the,Queens Gallery,was built on the site and opened to the public in 1962 to exhibit works of art from the,Royal Collection,The Ballroom is the largest room at Buckingham Palace.It was added by Queen Victoria and is used for ceremonies such as investitures and state banquets.This picture dates from 1856.,The state rooms,used for official and state entertaining,are open to the public each year for most of August and September.,These very formal rooms are used only for ceremonial and official entertaining,but are open to the public every summer.,the tower bridge,the Tower Bridge,is the statue of London which was built in 1886.,The proximity of,the harbor and its location,in the direction of the sea required for the bridge to,allow the,passage,of large vessels,.So the decision to create,a moveable bridge,which can be opened to accommodate boat traffic was made.,The mechanism,to open the bridge is hidden in the two towers.,Each deck,is more than 30 meters wide and can be opened to an angle of 83 degrees.When opened the bridge has a clearance of almost 45 meters.It used to open almost 50 times a day but nowadays it is only raised about,1,000 times,a year.,Bridge lifts are,pre-scheduled,(for cruise ships,etc)so visitors can check the bridges website to find out when it will,rise and lower.,Inside,the bridge is the Tower Bridge Exhibition,a display area that encompasses the walkway and the two famous towers where you can,observe the Victorian engine room,.,Visitors can learn about the history of the bridge via,photos,films,and other media,Plans for were devised around 1876 when the east of London became,extremely crowded,and a bridge across the Thames in that area of the city seemed a necessity.,the Big Ban,The clock tower of,the Houses of Parliament,in London is often called,Big Ben,but the name really belongs to an enormous bell inside the tower.,The tower of Big Ben,is an important London landmark.The clock is known for being,an excellent time-keeper,and the bell is known for the sound it makes as,it chimes every hour on the hour.,Four smaller bells in the tower,chime,the quarter hours.,For two years during,World War I,Big Bens bell was silent to prevent enemy aircraft from using it to hone in on the Houses of Parliament,and during,World War II,its clock was not illuminated for the same reason.In 1934 and 1956 the bell was restored and repaired.Maintenance work was performed on the clock in 2007.it survived and continue strike the hours.,The south clock face being cleaned on 11 August 2007,The clock has become a symbol of the United Kingdom and London,particularly in the visual media.When a television or film-maker wishes to indicate a generic location in Britain,a popular way to do so is to show an image of the Clock Tower,often with a,red double-decker bus,or,black cab,in the foreground.,The Clock Tower is a focus of New Year celebrations in the United Kingdom,with radio and TV stations tuning to its chimes to welcome the start of the year.,The Clock Tower has appeared in many films,most notably in the 1978 version of,The Thirty Nine Steps,in which the hero,Richard,Hannay,attempted,to halt the clocks progress(to prevent a linked bomb detonating)by hanging from the minute hand of its western dial.,Thank You !,