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1 Lucie Syrová

2 * General facts * History * Culture * Parks * Shopping, sport

3 * the capital city of England and the United Kingdom * over 8 million residents * the river Thames * the world's most-visited city * more than 300 languages spoken within its boundaries * the oldest underground railway network in the world

4 * 43 AD founded by the Romans as Londinium (the City) * 1340s the Black Death – nearly a third of its population died * the Great Plague of 1665–1666 – killed a fifth of the population * 1666 the Great Fire of London * the world's largest city from about 1831 to 1925 * since the 1940s home to a large number of immigrants

5 * the West End – shopping and entertainment (A.L. Webber) * The National Gallery – Trafalgar Square * The British Museum – established in 1753 * Tate Modern – most-visited modern art gallery in the world * Royal Albert Hall – concert hall * Shakespeare’s Globe * Madame Tussauds

6 * 8 Royal Parks of London * former royal hunting grounds, now open to the public * St. James’s Park – Buckingham Palace * Hyde Park – Speaker’s corner * Regent’s Park – London ZOO

7 * Oxford Street * Harrods – over 90,000 m 2 of selling space * Covent Garden * Camden Market * Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham, Westham * Wembley Stadium * Wimbledon * Boat race – Oxford x Cambridge

8 " You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. " Samuel Johnson, 1777

9 * London. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Londonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London

10 * London Bridge tube. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Bridge_tube_stn_Jubilee_round el.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_Bridge_tube_stn_Jubilee_round el.JPG * T2C london map. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T2C_london_map.jpeg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T2C_london_map.jpeg * YORICK PETEY. Nationalgallery. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nationalgallery.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nationalgallery.jpg * SMITH. Speaker's Corner. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker%27s_Corner_- _geograph.org.uk_-_240724.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker%27s_Corner_- _geograph.org.uk_-_240724.jpg * MIKEGR. HarrodsDay. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-30]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrodsDay.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarrodsDay.jpg * SAEBHIAR. Arsenal Crest 1990-1993. In: Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia [online]. San Francisco (CA): Wikimedia Foundation, 2001- [cit. 2013-10-19]. Dostupné z: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arsenal_Crest_1990-1993.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arsenal_Crest_1990-1993.svg


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