LONDON

HISTORY
• AD 43 – established as a civilian town by
the Romans – Londinium

• AD 60 – destroyed by the Iceny ( a Celtic

tribe led by Queen Boudica)

• AD 70 – a complete recovery

• 2nd century – the capital of Roman Britain

• London Wall
• AD 200
• defense against
the Saxon invaders

• the statue of
Trajan
• Anglo-Saxon settlement = Lundenwic
(1 mile to the west of Londinium)
Lundenwic = London trading town

• 9th century
– Viking attacks

• Alfred the Great

– beginning of
the City of London
• the Norman Conquest in 1066
• the White Tower

• St John´s
Chapel
London Bridge – then:

and now:
• Great Fire of London – September 1666

• started at
the bakery
on Pudding Lane

• consumed
-13,200 houses
-87 churches
-St Paul´s Cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren

rebuilt 50 churches
+ St Paul´s Cathedral
in the City of London
 St Paul´s Cathedral
old (before 1666)

new (1710)
 19th century
• the world´s largest city
• the capital of the British Empire
• the Metropolitan Police
• railway stations
• the London Underground
• 1851 - the Great Exhibition
Trafalgar Square
the Houses of Parliament
+ Big Ben
 The Royal Albert Hall
The Proms = summer eight-week festival
of classical music
The Victoria and Albert Museum
the world´s largest museum of decorative arts
(ceramics, glass,
textile, costumes,
jewellery,furniture,
sculpture, drawings,
photographs …)
 The Tate Gallery
(now called Tate Britain)

British Art
and
International
Modern and
Contemporary
Art
Tower Bridge
- opened in 1894
- 244 m long
- 65 m high
• 1940 – 1941 – bombing of London

• 1948 – Summer Olympic Games

(Wembly Stadium)

• 1952 – Great Smog

 21st century
• Millenium Dome

• London Eye

• tall buildings
 LONDON DISTRICTS
• City of London = business and financial
centre

• City of Westminster = governmental centre

• West End = shopping and entertainment

centre

• East End = poverty, immigrants

Greenwich
 LONDON PARKS
• Green Park
• St James´s Park
• Hyde Park
• Kensington Gardens
• Regent´s Park (ZOO)
TRANSPORT IN LONDON