1. TOUR GUIDE 4: TRAFALGARTOUR GUIDE 4: TRAFALGAR
SQUARE & STRANDSQUARE & STRAND

2. INDICE
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TRAFALGAR SGUARE:NELSON'S COLUMN
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TRAFALGAR SQUARE:NATIONAL GALLERY
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TRAFALGAR SQUARE:NATIONAL PORTRAIR
GALLERY
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COVENT GARDEN
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THE TATE MODERN
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THE GLOBE THEATRE
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SOHO
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OXFORD STREET

3. TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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

4. TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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

5. TRAFALGAR SQUARE
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

6. 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.

7. THE TATE MODERN
The 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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