true example of a Western metropolis in size and importance, London is the symbol of Anglo-Saxon culture and civilization in the world.
Today as in the past is one of the most important economic centers of global relevance. City of Regina and the ancient tradition which is opposed to innovation and modernity.
Exciting and stressful at the same time, London is all this and more.
One month after the day on which it will start booking tickets for the London Olympics next year, the Organizing Committee has released the official schedule of individual sessions of race and the pricing of tickets (download the program, 5Mb) .
At first impression will be evident to the spectators, the most expensive in the history of the Olympic Games.
No doubt London is in the heart of those who have been absolutely and goals to put the album of memories of those who still has not visited.
The capital of the United Kingdom is preparing to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, which offers views of jaw-dropping: from the top of the London Eye can look at his roof, illuminated Big Ben chimes, tiny vessels which run the Thames.
You can not give up a walk in the park Hyde Park, stopping to give a peanut to the lovely squirrels that inhabit it as well as make a stop in Camden Town to buy only British taste, losing the vintage stalls and shops dotting the narrow streets crowded .
come down to Trafalgar Square, just one hour and visit the National Gallery with the taster guided tour to see for yourself the Sunflowers Van Gogh or Seurat's The Bathers of Asnieres.
a shot with the Queen Elizabeth in person at the wax museum Madame Tussaud, and for the evening, a ticket to the Victoria Palace Theatre to see Billy Elliot the Musical Elton John signed.
Continuing my visit to London, I stumbled into the Royal Academy of Arts, which usually has great reviews on English themes.
These days it staged a major retrospective entitled Modern British Sculpture that examines the twentieth-century British sculpture.
The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to get an idea Trends and issues brought into play by the twentieth century British sculpture, exploring what we mean by "English" and "sculpture".
hosted for three days at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London, "Against Gravity Weekend Live" was asked about what the artist feels the need to prey represent the contemporary.
extremely ambitious and diverse, the weekend brought performances, screenings, music and installations, bringing the various practices in intellectual knots and animating a debate on the future of art in complex cultural contexts.
"'Against Gravity' was not a theme weekend, but the presentation of a variety of ways with different purposes - various artists whose practices coincide and interact in various ways, '" explains the young curator Catherine Borra.
During lunch break I love walking out of the City of a mile north of the Barbican district where I work.
The boundary is clear: one hundred yards here skyscrapers and buildings of futuristic glass and a hundred yards away old Victorian houses, the first foothill of the Silicon Roundabout I mentioned in my previous post.
Whitecross Street I walk the street name and has a stunning collection of international scope.
Nothing elegant.
the contrary: the suburban environment is populated by people who decorate their own small stalls that used to feed the swarm by banks and finance companies located nearby.
In Italy could be a market like any other, with a touch of ethnic immigrants who sell their wares. A
Whitecross Street seems to be the United Nations.
The official program of the sessions of the match with the prices of individual tickets for the Olympics London has been published, among less than a month, on March 15, even the Italian fans can enter their requests in the ticketing system and hope that any ballot for the allocation of places to see their efforts rewarded.
It 's time to take pen and paper and take some account, calendar in hand. The possibilities are endless, a little 'game to build some cases starting in the first two mission trips with the tricolor flag on their shoulders in search of Italian medals.
A plate of tordelli to Massa, but eaten in one of the most luxurious of London! The kitchen
Tuscan moved across the Channel, along with one of the most popular restaurants in the province of Massa Carrara, Trillo, first opening in London next summer. Roberto Bertuccelli, owner of the restaurant Massa is now in London to define the details of the transaction: a solo exhibition of the painter Alessandro Nocentini will open the restaurant, with its wine-bar in the heart of Chelsea, 4 Hollywood Road , on 12 May.
If a Facebook page called "The leaking roof" (B @ @ The Leaky b) you can not expect to go unnoticed. Jessica
Martin-Weber, in fact, if the view is shut in a jiffy by censorship of the social network for breach of the rules.
Yet the intentions of the new mother could only be speaking of lactation, a subject that creates a few more in England line-up fronts.
On the one hand there is a reality: a third of British children cease to be fed breast milk after a week of life.
Only a fifth of mothers still breastfeeding after six weeks and 7% of children are breastfed until the fourth month of life.
These numbers bring into the UK in line with developed countries.
On the other hand there are those of breastfeeding is a personal battle, like Jessica, in fact, that with his "tit dripping" simply wanted to bring together moms in search of answers.
But the fact that he published pictures of women breast-feeding - then topless - alerted the Facebook-censors, that soon after, however, they realized their error and put the page online, to the delight of 15 000 followers.
Sexual Nature, or sexual nature, is the title of the exhibit recently opened at the Natural History Museum in London and runs until October 2.
The stars of the animals and their sex life, represented so much scientific as openly provocative.
is the first time that the prestigious museum houses an exhibition "recommended for over 16 years" and discuss what they are doing of course the British, "polite" by definition.
The show, reported the Guardian, however, allows the visitor to get a very clear idea of \u200b\u200bhow sex functions in the animal and even vegetable, without any kind of discount on a visual level or conceptual.
A trip to London to go shopping has to start from Oxford Street.
Someone calls it the way most snobbish (and therefore fashion) across the British capital, and with good reason, given the more than 250 shops and boutiques here that in addition to attracting hundreds of thousands of people every day, are the backdrop to the beauty of this area.
A trip to London to go shopping to be cut to shape their own portfolios, unless you just want to see but it is good to buy then choose among the various shopping areas of London, the one that best suits our ' spending power '.
Visit London brings us to discover one of the liveliest cities in Europe at the cultural level.
The highest concentration of theaters the city is without doubt in the famous West End, gravitating around Piccadilly Circus.
Other cultural centers are the Barbican Centre in the east of the center, and the so-called South Bank, the stretch between Waterloo Bridge and Westminster Bridge.
Among the major theaters of the West End are to remember the Adelphi Theatre, the Dominion, the historic Drury Lane (which began life in the theater at Covent Garden), the Haymarket, the Her Majesty's Theatre, the Lyceum, the New London, the majestic Palace, the Playhouse, St. Martin's Theatre (the stage of the legendary Mousetrap by Agatha Christie in 1952, his debut year, he never left the scene in London) Whitehall and Whyndham's Theatre. Should be also mentioned the London Palladium, the Phoenix Theatre, the Prince of Wales, the Aldwych, the Arts Theatre, the Duke of York's Theatre, the Fortune, the Garrick, the Gielgud, the Lyric and Piccadilly. We should not forget, finally, the rooms devoted to the work: the London Coliseum (home of the Inglese National Opera) and the Royal Opera House.
The London Olympics approach: in the summer of 2012 athletes from every nation will compete to win the most prestigious titles.
It has been announced the calendar of events and ticket prices, purchased by March 15 this year.
It will go on sale for 6.6 million participate in 645 sessions of sport. For the opening ceremony, July 27, 2012, the cost ranges from 24 to 2300 euro.
Until August 12, the day of ceremony chisura, gl athletes will compete in different disciplines from horse to soccer, martial arts, swimming, sailing from fighting.
E 'became the new tenant on all fours in Downing Street.
enlisted to hunt mice, yesterday took aim at the correspondent for ITV during a service: four scratches on his arm ( PHOTOS ). The rat
undisturbed in front of the residence of Cameron ( VIDEO)
become a symbol of London, the 135 ft high Ferris wheel was the largest in the world until "The star of Nachang" first and then the Singapore Flyer have not exceeded (the latter "wins" for 30 m).
The London Eye was opened December 31, 1999 by Prime Minister Tony Blair to celebrate the advent of the new millennium and this is also called the Millennium Wheel.
however, was open to the public until March 2000.
The Commission appointed to study the conditions of the Cathedral of S. Paul in the report offers two systems: that the eight main pillars that support the dome and damaged to be repaired with grout under pressure, and to replace the crumbling stone walls with new, while the next considers the need to demolish and rebuild.
These proposals are alarming and disappointing.
The conservation of the magnificent monument of the Wren is the object that must be held to the end.
course, rebuild, it would be best thing though of course more expensive, cheap and patching is more brisk, but you can not raise the issue only from the standpoint of cost when it comes to saving the work of Wren.
The upper parts of the Cathedral of S. Paul, including the drums inside and outside the cone, domes, and lanterns are the first choice of jobs Ji personal invention of the Wren building in science and therefore must be saved at all costs.
seventh edition, the fair Ecobuild of London, is a candidate to become the most important event in Europe dedicated to the areas of sustainable design, green building and renewable energy.
With over 1.300 exhibitors and about 50,000 visitors, Ecobuild is an international meeting point for architects, construction companies and suppliers, creating the largest industry event geared to promoting research and development.
Among the most spectacular and famous department stores Harrods and Fortnum & Mason stand out.
Fortnum & Mason is the oldest department store in London and the Queen is certainly notable for the elegance of British style, where the clerks are in tight.
Gastronomy London is not Italian, but the variety of restaurants in the British capital, a melting pot of different peoples, traditions and tastes, it offers visitors plenty of choice, and the breakfasts are a show of plenty and gluttony ....
fish and chips or, better, Fish & Chips, the dish is served and also the most good.
Grilled meat and roast beef are also good for those who like the genre and at least in public, as well as beers, you can find some tasty variations.
Pubs are a meeting place extraordinary institution with ancient historical origins.
Pub is short for Public House "public house".
Historical sources date back to medieval times the pub, where travelers stopped to refresh themselves and the people come together in a slice of life quoridiana.
In the district of Soho are all kinds of local, restaurants offering specialties from around the world and where until the seventies there was a strong Italian community replaced by that of China which has transformed a part of the neighborhood in a real Tonw China.
is essential to move to London Underground, or Tube, as it is called in these parts because of the shape of the tunnel reminiscent of a large tube, the city chaotic and crowded, not allows you to easily move to the surface. All
West End our opinion should be explored, you can lose yourself in Mayfair, the elegant refined neighborhood from houses dating from the eighteenth century they are the most prestigious boutiques. Do not miss
Oxford Street, one of the largest and most famous shopping streets in the world with its 300 shops.
Wandering here and there you will find yourself in Baker Street, made famous by Sherlock Holmes where there is also a museum in his honor and not far away, continuing to walk you will arrive in Marylebone Road, where the wax museum Madame Tussaud.
adjacent to the West End there is another district Bloomsbury, well known for the elegance of its nineteenth-century squares, to be the district where there is a real institution Brithis the London Museum, which will recommend that you visit.
If you are not tired at two subway stops away, you are in Covent Garden. Another area is elegant
Kensington where there are two other areas South Kesington and Kinghtsbridge.
South Kesington is the neighborhood favorite artists, where stands the Victoria Albert Museum end one of the largest museums in the world in the field of applied decorative arts.
Kinghtsbridge other hand, is famous for being the district where Harrods
We Notting Hill, the neighborhood made famous by Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the film.
On Saturday morning there are 1000 stalls to compose the famous and largest antique market in the world
leaving slightly towards the north from the city center and changing attractiveness, there is a neighborhood that we announce that London is also strange and curious, and if you like to browse among the oddities, the markets of Camden Tonw those parts are a major tourist attraction of the weekend and beyond.
do not miss a visit to Greenwich , a large suburb lying on the right bank of the Thames renowned for its astronomical observatory, the park and especially to be the location of latitude 0 and a basis for defining the time at Greenwich, on which regulate the clocks around the world.
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