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COVENT GARDEN, PICCADILLY CIRCUS & LONDON EYE By: Victoria, Linnéa & Tillie
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Covent Garden
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* District- Central London * Paceful place- Central London Operahouse, resturants, Drury Lane, milliner´s shop. Monastery and kitchen garden Shopping, culture & pleasure Piazza first market- England Fruit & vegetable market August 2007- first food night market The name- Henry the 7 Every year 44 million visitors- day and night More than 60 bars Covent garden hotel Lots of beer Piazza- designate- Ingo Jones- Pauls church
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PICCADILLY CIRCUS!
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Buildt 1819 Designed- John Nash 1920 Into 1600- called Portugal Name- Portugal street- Robert Baker Tailor- middle of 1600 into 1700- shop Sollars- called piccadills Big region- west of London Building- piccadilly hall Under 1600- modern residential areas Famous farms- Clarendon house, Berkely house och Sir John Denham´s house 1920- replaced with shops Lillywhits- biggest shopping centre in England
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five big floors-different sport products Neon sign Famous fountain 1893- Londons middle centre Between- Regents street, Shaftesbury Avenu, Piccadilly and Coventry street. Song: Pernilla Wahlgren
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LONDON EYE
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INSIDEOUTSIDE
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Europe´s largest big wheel Has 4 miles- views If you travels one lap around i takes about 30 minutes Day- comes about 15.000 passengers to ride the big wheel There are 32 gondolas 25 people- in eatch gondola World´s best tourist attraction 100 meters wide- 135 feet above Views to all directions Weighs 1600 tons Designed by David Marks and Julia Barfield Inauguration- new year´s eve 31 december-20:00 1999 by Tony Blair
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Built to celebrate London´s new millennium- wanted to tear it down. The London eye- so popular- let it remain
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THANKS FOR LISTNING!!!
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