Tourism in Great Britain

In the north of the Parliament Building on the Thames, stands a tall bell tower named Big Ben. Every 1 hour, the big clock makes a heavy and loud sound according to Greenwich Mean Time, and the bell can be heard for miles away.

1859, this clock was supervised by the then British minister Sir Benjamin Hall. The clock weighs 2 1 ton and cost 27,000 pounds when it was cast.

Big Ben is considered as the symbol of London. Anyone who visits London wants to stand around the bell tower and admire this unique building in London on Parliament Bridge. The Tower of London was built in 1078. Historically, it used to be a palace, a court and a prison. The Tower of London covers an area of 7.2 hectares and is surrounded by huge stones. There are many forts and watchtowers on the city wall, surrounded by a wide and deep moat.

The Tower of London has now become a museum open to the outside world. There is a treasure hall in the tower, and the audience can see the crown of the king of England and the gold and silver jewelry collected by the royal family. There are also some fat crows named "Du Wu" in London Castle, which are kept by special personnel. The Tower of London has a history of thousands of years and is the oldest monument in London, with 2 million visitors every year. At the entrance and exit, visitors can see two guards in ancient dynasty uniforms. These "ancient guards" have become the object of tourists' appreciation and photography. The British Museum is located in the center of London, on the north side of Grerussell Street in downtown. It is a large Roman column, magnificent. The collection of cultural relics and books here is unmatched by any museum in the world. The British Museum was built in 1753 and officially opened six years later. At first, I mainly collected books, and later I also collected historical relics and ancient works of art from various countries.

Egypt Pavilion is one of the largest exhibition halls in the museum. The number of exhibitions reached more than 70,000 pieces. In Greece and Rome, there are temples dedicated to the goddess Athens in the 5th century A.D. and busts of ancient Roman emperors. There are Persian cultural relics with a long history in the West Asia Art Museum, as well as two land boundary markers given to nobles by King Hammurabi of Babylon more than 3,700 years ago. The most striking thing is the Oriental Art Museum, where besides the cultural relics from Central Asia, South Asia and Japan, most of them are rare treasures of China, reaching more than 20,000 pieces.

The collection of books in the British Museum enjoys a long-standing reputation in the world. There are a large number of classic documents, books, manuscripts and archives in Britain and the world, many of which are rare. Besides English, there are books in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Sanskrit, Hindi, Mongolian and Chinese. There are over 60,000 kinds of books and periodicals in China alone.

Historically, many scholars, celebrities and political activists have read, studied and written extensively in the British Library. Karl Marx, the mentor of the proletarian revolution, moved to London continuously for decades, and finally completed the immortal masterpiece Das Kapital. The hometown of Shakespeare, the world drama master, is Stratford-on-Emma. The population is only 20,000, but the number of tourists reaches 6.5438+0.5 million every year. The main purpose of people coming here is to see the place where Shakespeare was born, worked, lived and rested. Shakespeare's former residence is located in Henry Street. It is a typical two-story wooden house, simple and solemn. On the right of the house is Shakespeare.

Heart ",a modern building that is both a library and an archive, was built with private donations from the United States and Canada. The house where Shakespeare lived after his marriage was called "Anne hershey's Cabin", and the layout of the room was as good as possible. Shakespeare loved his hometown and was buried in Trinity Church after his death. Scotland is located in the northwest of the northern European island of Great Britain, where Britain is located. Scotland used to be an independent country in history, and even after its merger with England, it still retains great independence and distinctive national traditions. The geographical conditions of a country are always related to its historical development, especially the Scots. The unique natural conditions keep the Scots small in population and empty in land, and also keep the Scots bagpipes and short skirts as well as independence and pride.

Northwest Scotland is a famous highland in Scotland, with magnificent natural scenery: landforms left over from the ice age, rugged mountains, exquisite lakes and Yuan Ye covered with boulders. The clear streams here provide important raw materials for the traditional specialty of the highlands-scotch whisky. There are not many towns in the southeast of highland, which is called highland tourism center. There are majestic mountains, beautiful valleys, quiet lakes, rushing streams and Yuan Ye with heather flowers. Although southern Scotland is mountainous, it is far less unruly than the highlands. The terrain here is similar to that in northern England, and it is a gentle and quiet area. There are grassy hillsides and spacious valleys surrounded by quiet streams.

1707 years ago, Scotland was once an independent kingdom, occupying about 1/3 of the land area on the northwest coast of Europe and north of Great Britain. Although Scotland is under the jurisdiction of the British Parliament in Westminster, London in terms of diplomacy and military affairs, it has a very high degree of autonomy in internal legislation and administration, and it also issues its own currency version. It is a country under British rule, second only to England in scale.