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Strakhov Stepan and Panferiev Maxim. The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square in London.

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1 Strakhov Stepan and Panferiev Maxim

2 The National Gallery is an art museum on Trafalgar Square in London.

3 It was founded in 1824, from an purchase of 36 paintings by the John Julius Angerstein.

4 The Museum contains more than 2000 samples of Western European art of the XIII - beginning of the 20th century. The fifth most visited Museum in the world. Pictures in the gallery displayed in chronological order.

5 Westminster Abbey is a large, mainly Gothic, church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Palac of Westminster.

6 Westminster was founded in the 7th century, around existed at the time of the monastery.

7 Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of a royal saint, Edward the Confessor, whose relics were placed in a shrine in the sanctuary. Henry III himself was interred nearby, as were many of the Plantagenet kings of England, their wives and other relatives.

8 The first English king to be crowned here, was Harold, in January 1066.

9 Thank you for your attention!


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