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Located at 1078 William the Conqueror, the White Tower to build here. He should protect the Normans from the people of the City of London, but also London at all. In the following centuries, the fortress was expanded. It is surrounded by a wide moat. An outside wall protects the inner building. In the center of the grounds is the powerful "White Tower". From a distance it looks square, but three of the corners do not form a right angle, and all four sides have different lengths. UNESCO has declared the building in 1988, World Cultural Heritage.

The Tower Bridge is a road bridge over the Thames. It connects the City of London on the north side of the Borough of Southwark in the same borough (London Borough of Southwark) on the south side. What is involved in the Gothic Revival style, built a swing bridge and the easternmost Thames bridge, it leads the main A100 road.
Tower Bridge, London landmarks

Located on the north bank of the Tower of London (after the bridge is named) and the St Katharine Docks, on the south bank of the City Hall. The bridge is owned by Bridge House Estates, a charitable organization of the City of London Corporation, which is also responsible for the upkeep. Occasionally, the Tower Bridge is mistakenly called London Bridge, this is the next bridge upstream.

The Tower Bridge is 244 meters long, the height of the two bridge towers is 65 meters. The roadway between the towers 61 meters apart, is nine feet above the river, the pedestrian bridge meter 43rd The two bascule, up to an angle of 83 degrees can be folded up to allow larger ships to pass through. Tower Bridge was completed in 1894.

The most famous tower in London is the 98 meter high bell tower, which houses Big Ben, the heaviest at 13 tons of the five bells, which play the familiar Westminster chime. He is a part of the Palace of Westminster, a monumental, neo-Gothic building built in the meeting, which consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, British Parliament. The palace is located in the City of Westminster in Parliament Square, close to Whitehall. He was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

The oldest preserved part of the Palace of Westminster Hall is built in 1097th Originally it served as the residence of the kings of England, but since 1529 no monarch has lived here longer. Only slightly from the original building has been preserved as it was in 1834 when a devastating fire destroyed almost completely. The architect was responsible for the reconstruction of Charles Barry.

The main rooms of the palace are the council halls of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. There are some 1,100 additional rooms, including meeting rooms, libraries, lobbies, dining rooms, bars and gyms. The term Westminster in British parlance is often synonymous with the parliamentary business, is therefore a metonym for Parliament.