Le Parlement, également connu sous le nom de Palais de Westminster, est le lieu où siègent les deux chambres du Parlement du Royaume-Uni (la Chambre des Lords et la Chambre des Communes). Il se situe sur la rive nord de la Tamise, dans le quartier londonien de la Cité de Westminster, à proximité d'autres bâtiments gouvernementaux de Whitehall. La partie la plus ancienne du Parlement (Palais de Westminster) existe encore : Westminster Hall, qui date de 1097. Le palais servait à l'origine de résidence royale, mais aucun monarque n'y a résidé depuis le XVIe siècle. La majeure partie de la structure actuelle du Parlement (Palais de Westminster) date du XIXe siècle, lorsque le palais fut reconstruit après avoir été presque entièrement détruit par un incendie en 1834. Les architectes responsables de la reconstruction du palais étaient Sir Charles Barry et Augustus Welby Pugin, et le bâtiment est un exemple du renouveau gothique.

L'abbaye de Westminster est à la fois une église, un cimetière, un lieu de couronnement et bien plus encore. Plus de 900 ans après sa fondation, l'abbaye de Westminster continue d'attirer les visiteurs. Son architecture est commune à bien des égards. On y retrouve le plan traditionnel en croix avec une nef, des transepts nord et sud et plusieurs espaces latéraux arrondis. Mais tant par sa conception que par son utilisation, la collégiale Saint-Pierre de Westminster (son nom officiel) figure parmi les plus beaux exemples de construction religieuse. C'est ici, à l'abbaye de Westminster, que reposent des rois, des poètes, des scientifiques et des philosophes qui ont eux-mêmes élevé l'humanité au plus haut niveau. Isaac Newton et James Clerk Maxwell (découvreur de la théorie électromagnétique, qui a plus tard donné naissance à la radio et à la télévision), Chaucer et Kipling, le Dr Samuel Johnson (créateur du premier dictionnaire anglais) et bien d'autres noms célèbres à juste titre y reposent.

Située au cœur des monuments emblématiques de Londres, tels que le Parlement, la tour Elizabeth (aussi appelée Big Ben), Whitehall, l'église Sainte-Marguerite, l'abbaye de Westminster et le pont de Westminster, Parliament Square abrite onze personnalités et dirigeants mondiaux, dont Sir Winston Churchill, Gandhi et Nelson Mandela. Parliament Square à Londres est une destination touristique prisée. Son atmosphère magnifique en fait un lieu incontournable de la ville.

Située au 10e étage de la Maison Blanche, l'un des bâtiments politiques les plus importants au monde, elle accueille les Premiers ministres britanniques depuis 1735. Les principales décisions qui ont marqué le destin du Royaume-Uni au cours des 275 dernières années ont été prises derrière son emblématique porte noire. Aujourd'hui, il est impossible de pénétrer dans la rue en tant que touriste, mais l'idée qu'un Premier ministre y réside et y travaille est palpitante. Vivez cette expérience avec nous.

Le palais de Buckingham demeure la résidence officielle de la monarchie britannique, comme il l'a été depuis sa désignation par la reine Victoria en 1837. Une grande partie du palais fut construite dès 1703 pour le duc de Buckingham. Buckingham House (son nom d'alors) fut achetée en 1762 par George III, qui l'utilisa comme résidence privée. Au cours des 75 années suivantes, la demeure fut agrandie pour former trois ailes autour d'une cour centrale. Lorsque la reine Victoria découvrit que le palais de Buckingham manquait de plusieurs pièces « nécessaires » – comme une salle de bal, une chambre d'enfant, des chambres d'amis, etc. – d'importants travaux d'agrandissement furent entrepris, notamment l'ajout d'une aile entière pour former un quadrilatère. La Marble Arch fut déplacée à Hyde Park, où elle se trouve toujours près de Speaker's Corner. Le parement en pierre de Portland de 1913 marqua la dernière transformation majeure du palais. Buckingham Palace est toujours utilisé comme résidence et bureaux. Plus de 50 000 invités et diplomates y séjournent chaque année et interagissent avec plus de 400 personnes pour qui ce palais est « le bureau ». Néanmoins, plusieurs parties du palais sont ouvertes au public.

La Garde de la Reine et la Garde du Corps de la Reine (appelées Garde du Roi et Garde du Corps du Roi lorsque le monarque régnant est un homme) sont les noms donnés aux contingents d'infanterie et de cavalerie chargés de la garde des résidences royales officielles au Royaume-Uni. L'armée britannique comptait des régiments de Horse Guards et de Foot Guards antérieurs à la Restauration anglaise (1660), et depuis le règne du roi Charles II, ces régiments sont chargés de la garde des palais du souverain. Contrairement aux idées reçues, les gardes ne sont pas purement cérémonielles et sont des soldats pleinement opérationnels.

St. James's Park est l'un des parcs royaux de Londres, situé dans la Cité de Westminster, à l'est du palais de Buckingham et à l'ouest de Downing Street. Depuis plus de quatre cents ans, St. James' Park est le centre de la vie royale et cérémonielle du pays. De nombreux éléments du parc ont été façonnés par les ambitions royales et les événements nationaux. Nous vous ferons découvrir ses trésors cachés et les meilleurs endroits pour vos plus belles photos.

Much of London, for the tourist anyway, is historical. Ancient buildings and centuries-old monuments. Palaces and works of art from the ages. But not Harrods London. Harrods, even while its origins are from over 150 years ago, is as up-to-date as the latest computer. The world's greatest department store was established on its current site in 1849 by Charles Henry Harrod, a wholesale grocer. Harrod's son Charles Digby rapidly grew the business and by 1880 employed 100 staff. Never one to be bowed by setbacks, not even a devastating fire in 1883, Harrods London went on to make all its Christmas deliveries in that year and many since. Whether flying fresh fish to Alfred Hitchcock or embalming Sigmund Freud's body, Harrods London is the store that promises 'Everything to Everybody Everywhere' never fails to deliver. Much of the architectural additions to Harrods London- including terracotta tiles and Art Nouveau windows topped with a baroque dome - can still be seen by a careful observer. Explore this magnificent shrine of the department store where shopping is a true tradition.

Hyde Park, perhaps most famous for the Speaker's Corner, where citizens stand atop a soapbox and shout their views to the crowd, but there's much more to see and do in Hyde Park than listen to political opinions. The land forming Hyde Park was first acquired by Henry VIII from the monks of Westminster Abbey in 1536. While Henry used Hyde Park for deer hunting, the horseback riding today is strictly not for sport. Casual and relaxing, the Hyde Park trails are abundant, but riders must bring their own horses. Visitors can often see the Royal Horse Artillery riding on horseback through Hyde Park early in the morning. Hyde Park was first made accessible to the public by King James I in the early 17th century, the park is split by the Serpentine, a river dammed to make an artificial lake. The idea was originated by the wife of King George II, an avid gardener. Boat rides on the Hyde Park lake remain a popular activity. Hyde Park is perhaps the oldest park in London, these 350 acres (140 hectares) contain peaceful walks through gardens and woods, boats for hire, venues for music concerts and is very nearby several stellar pubs and restaurants. There's even a pet cemetery and during the summer, on Sundays concerts are held at the Hyde Park Bandstand. Explore the beauty by me.

At the junction of Regent Street and Shaftesbury Avenue lies a trapezoidal area near London's West End known to the world as Piccadilly Circus. It's an odd name since there's no circus there, but even odder is that 'circus' usually denotes around city area where several streets meet in a circle, after the Roman plan. But that eccentricity fits Piccadilly Circus since this area of the great British capital attracts the most diverse set of people in an already diverse town. The first half of the Piccadilly Circus name comes from a 17th-century frilly collar called a "picadil". The name is a perfect description, for here are the frills of London. Here are pubs, monuments, shops and nearby theatre in the West End. Yes, Piccadilly Circus, akin to New York's Times Square, it's filled with traffic, crowds and (mainly at night) neon lights befitting its role as a major tourist attraction. Known already by 1743 by its current name, the junction was created in 1819 and its history shows. There's the bronze Shaftesbury memorial fountain, erected in 1893, topped by a statue of Anteros, the Angel of Christian Charity. (The Evening Standard uses a graphic of the nude statue on its masthead.) Technologically innovative at the time, it was the first sculpture to be cast in aluminium. In the late 1980s, the fountain was moved from the centre to its present Piccadilly Circus location at the south-west corner of the intersection. Let me introduce you to the Times Square of our city.

Le pont de Westminster n'est pas un pont ordinaire enjambant la Tamise. Son histoire londonienne est tumultueuse. De couleur verte, il est riche en histoire. Nous vous raconterons son histoire après le rôle de Lady Boadicée dans les 2 000 ans d'histoire de Londres. Avant de partir, nous longerons le pont et prendrons des photos du London Eye, du Royal Festival Hall et de la Tamise.

Tower Bridge is probably city's most distinctive symbol for today. Bridge shows a lot to its medieval predecessor London Bridge with its starlings and elaborate twin towers that give the bridge its name but it's not just a homage to the past, hidden inside that medieval looking exterior there's a rather wonderful piece of Victorian engineering and in its day it was the biggest and most sophisticated lifting bridge in the world. Unlike London Bridge, the genius of the design is that the bridge can act as a gateway swinging open to allow tall ships to pass through. Plenty of things we will tell you about this masterpiece in London, just follow me!

London Bridge is a bridge over the River Thames, between the City of London and Southwark. It is between Cannon Street Railway Bridge and Tower Bridge; it also forms the western end of the Pool of London. The original London Bridge made this one of the most famous bridge emplacements in the world. It was the only bridge over the Thames in London until Westminster Bridge was opened in 1750. A bridge has existed at or near the present site for nearly 2000 years. The first bridge across the Thames in the London area was built by the Romans on the present site around 76 AD and was made of wood. The location was most likely chosen as a bridgeable spot which still had deepwater access to the sea. The bridge fell into disrepair after the Romans left in 410 AD, but at some point either it was repaired or a new timber replacement constructed, probably more than once. In 1013, the bridge was burned down by King Ethelred in a bid to divide the invading forces of the Dane Svein Haraldsson. This episode reputedly inspired the well-known nursery rhyme London Bridge is falling down. The rebuilt London Bridge was destroyed by a storm in 1091 and yet again, this time by fire, in 1136. he current London Bridge was constructed by contractors John Mowlem from 1967 to 1972 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II on March 17, 1973. London Bridge is a fairly dull edifice comprising three spans of pre-stressed concrete cantilevers, paid for in part by the sale of the earlier Rennie bridge. It is 928 feet (283 metres) long. The cost of £4m was met entirely by the City of London's Bridge House Estates. The current bridge was built in the same location as Rennie's bridge, which was carefully demolished piece by piece as the new bridge was built, so the bridge would remain in use throughout. Time to solve the big mix up between Tower Bridge and London Bridge. Just listen to the story of London Bridge from me.

Le Monument au Grand Incendie de Londres, plus communément appelé le Monument, est une colonne dorique située à Londres, au Royaume-Uni, près de l'extrémité nord du London Bridge. Commémorant le Grand Incendie de Londres, il se dresse à l'intersection de Monument Street et de Fish Street Hill, à 62 mètres de hauteur et à 62 mètres à l'ouest de l'endroit de Pudding Lane où le Grand Incendie s'est déclaré le 2 septembre 1666. Construit entre 1671 et 1677, il a été érigé sur le site de Sainte-Marguerite, Fish Street, la première église détruite par le Grand Incendie. Le Monument est constitué d'une colonne dorique cannelée en pierre de Portland, surmontée d'une urne dorée. Conçu par Christopher Wren et Robert Hooke, il marque sa hauteur par rapport à l'emplacement de la boutique de Thomas Farriner (ou Farynor), le boulanger du roi, où l'incendie a débuté. Écoutez l'histoire de Londres qui a manqué sa chance d'être une ville hautement planifiée.

Le Mur de Londres était la première enceinte défensive construite par les Romains autour de Londinium en 250 apr. J.-C., leur ville portuaire stratégique sur la Tamise, dans l'actuelle Londres, en Angleterre. Elle fut ensuite entretenue jusqu'au XVIIIe siècle. C'est aujourd'hui le nom d'une rue de la Cité de Londres qui longe une partie du tracé de l'ancienne muraille de Tower Hill. Jusqu'à la fin du Moyen Âge, ce mur délimitait la Cité de Londres. Découvrons ce chef-d'œuvre d'ingénierie romaine.

St Katharine Docks is a former dock and now a mixed-used district in Central London, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and within the East End. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, immediately downstream of the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. From 1828 to 1968 it was one of the commercial docks that made up the Port of London. It is in the redevelopment zone known as Docklands, and is now a popular housing and leisure complex with full of offices, public and private housing, a large hotel, shops and restaurants, an 18th century hidden gem in this yachting marina and other recreational facilities. It remains a popular leisure destination where you can enjoy and admire. Just follow me.

Few prisons can claim to be as popular as the Tower of London, an attraction - unpleasant for some - for over 900 years. Its twenty towers are filled with an ancient tradition of royal blood, armor and jewels and the history to match. The Tower of London central structure began as a fort - used by the original builder William the Conqueror who completed the first tower around 1100 AD. At its completion it was the tallest building in London. Henry III had it whitewashed in the 13th century and the name, White Tower, has stuck. Later it evolved into a prison, used by Henry VII (and many others). Still later - and continuing to this day - it has acted as a repository for the extensive collection of crown jewels. Henry VII, nearly always short of money, had few jewels to store. But the stone complex, near the Tower Bridge alongside the River Thames, has also been used at various times to house the Royal Mint, the Public Records, the Royal Menagerie (later to form the starting point of the London Zoo) and an observatory (built in 1675). Listen to the rest of the story of the Tower of London from me today.

St Paul's Cathedral is a cathedral on Ludgate Hill, in the City of London, and the seat of the Bishop of London. The present building dates from the 17th century and is generally reckoned to be London's fourth St Pauls Cathedral, although the number is higher if every major medieval reconstruction is counted as a new cathedral. The first cathedral was built by the Saxons in wood. It burned down in AD 675 and was rebuilt, again in wood, ten years later. After this version was sacked by the Vikings in 962, the "second" St Pauls was built, this time mainly in stone. The predecessor to Wren's cathedral, The third St Pauls (known as Old St Pauls), was begun by the Normans after the late Saxon cathedral suffered in a fire of 1087. Work took over two hundred years, and a great deal was lost in a fire in 1136. Nonetheless the roof was once more built of wood, which was ultimately to doom the building. The church was "completed" in 1240 but a change of heart soon led to the commencement of an enlargement programme, which was not completed until 1314. The cathedral was however consecrated in 1300. It was the third longest church in Europe at 596 feet (181 metres) and boasted one of Europe's tallest spires at some 489 feet (149 metres). England's first classical architect Sir Inigo Jones added the cathedral's new west front in the 1630s, but "Old St Pauls" was finally ruined in the Great Fire of London of 1666. Building work on the latest St Pauls Cathedral commenced in June 1675 to a design by a great English scientist and architect of the 17th century Christopher Wren, and St Pauls Cathedral was completed on October 20, 1708. The story starts from this point on and you can't wait to hear the rest of it from me.

Trafalgar Square is a very touristic public square with some of London's most popular attractions, from galleries and historic buildings to monuments and statues, you can be a witness of deep-seated British history. Square also holds a series of events all year round. Listen to the stories of the kings such as Charles I, Charles IV, Admiral Horatio Nelson, General Sir Charles James Napier and Major General Sir Henry Havelock who shaped the history of this nation. I will be ready to take you an immaculate journey through the timeline of our nation.

Explore the official entrance to St James and Buckingham Palace, since the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660. Lifeguards have stood guard at Horse Guards and ready to offer you a true British ceremony. Although Changing The Queen's Lifeguard is not as well-known as Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace smaller crowds and no railings between you and the men and horses taking part make it ideal for those with younger children and those looking for some amazing pictures. The ceremony lasts about half an hour, and the mounted sentries change every hour, or half hour in very cold weather during the day until 16:00 when a dismounting ceremony takes place. The Queen's Lifeguard is normally provided by men of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment which consists of a Squadron of The Life Guards, who wear red tunics and white plumed helmets, and a Squadron of The Blues and Royals with blue tunics and red plumed helmets. I will be ready to tell you amazing stories about this ceremony. A simply not to be missed attraction in the heart of the city.