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Westminster with Stephen Fry: Audio Tour by a National Treasure
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This self-guided audio tour through Westminster is hosted by the legendary Stephen Fry and was developed with the QI Elves, the research team behind the hit BBC show QI. This immersive walking tour uncovers the bizarre facts and hidden secrets behind London's most famous landmarks.
Over the next hour, Stephen’s narration guides you through the quirky history hiding in plain sight. Starting at Westminster Pier, your audio guide leads you toward Trafalgar Square. Pass the Houses of Parliament to hear about odd traditions like free snortable tobacco for MPs.
Along the way, you'll learn how Westminster Abbey staff jealously used a flawed waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure tourists from St. Paul'...
Points forts
De 1 heure et 15 minutes à 1 heure et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 1 heure et 15 minutes à 1 heure et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
Accès à vie à cette visite en anglais avant et après votre date de réservation
Accès hors ligne à l'audio, aux cartes et aux géodonnées
Application pour Android et iOS
Flexibilité pour explorer à votre rythme avec une visite GPS autoguidée
Smartphone et écouteurs
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Nourriture et boisson
Transport
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Westminster Pier
This tour starts at Westminster Pier. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Retour
Cleopatra's Needle
This self-guided audio ends in front of Cleopatra's Needle.
Westminster with Stephen Fry: Audio Tour by a National Treasure
(1) Avis
London
À propos
This self-guided audio tour through Westminster is hosted by the legendary Stephen Fry and was developed with the QI Elves, the research team behind the hit BBC show QI. This immersive walking tour uncovers the bizarre facts and hidden secrets behind London's most famous landmarks.
Over the next hour, Stephen’s narration guides you through the quirky history hiding in plain sight. Starting at Westminster Pier, your audio guide leads you toward Trafalgar Square. Pass the Houses of Parliament to hear about odd traditions like free snortable tobacco for MPs.
Along the way, you'll learn how Westminster Abbey staff jealously used a flawed waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure tourists from St. Paul'...
Points forts
De 1 heure et 15 minutes à 1 heure et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
De 1 heure et 15 minutes à 1 heure et 30 minutes
Proposé en Anglais
Annulation gratuite
Billet mobile
Ce qui est inclus
Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
Accès à vie à cette visite en anglais avant et après votre date de réservation
Accès hors ligne à l'audio, aux cartes et aux géodonnées
Application pour Android et iOS
Flexibilité pour explorer à votre rythme avec une visite GPS autoguidée
Smartphone et écouteurs
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Nourriture et boisson
Transport
Points de rendez-vous
Départ
Westminster Pier
This tour starts at Westminster Pier. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Retour
Cleopatra's Needle
This self-guided audio ends in front of Cleopatra's Needle.
On this audio tour, you'll learn about how the traditional members' smoking ban still requires the doorkeeper to provide MPs with free, finely ground snortable snuff tobacco from a box made of salvaged door-frame wood.
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l'abbaye de Westminster
On this walking tour, you'll hear about how the Abbey's staff once jealously commissioned a waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure paying tourists back from his actual burial site at St. Paul's Cathedral—though they accidentally gave the statue an injury on the wrong eye.
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The Cenotaph
On this GPS-guided tour, you'll find out how this war memorial relies on an ancient Greek optical illusion called "entasis," where the stone blocks secretly taper toward the top to prevent the human eye from mistakenly perceiving the monument as concave.
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10 Downing Street
On this immersive smartphone tour, you'll discover how every single Prime Minister since 1997 has actually chosen to swap homes and live next door at number 11 because its bedrooms are much nicer.
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Women of World War II Memorial
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll learn about a unique monument representing wartime women that was partially funded by a former Speaker of the House of Commons who won donation money on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
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La colonne de Nelson
On this historical walking tour, you'll be treated to the story of how fourteen construction workers celebrated the monument's completion in 1843 by using a pulley system to eat an exclusive steak-and-champagne dinner at the very top of the statue.
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
On this audio journey, you'll explore a historic church that was expanded by Henry VIII simply because he was irritated by the view of plague victims being carried past his palace windows.
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Charing Cross Underground Station
On this GPS-guided walk, you'll tune into the story of the station yard's pointed monument to Eleanor of Castile, whose 13th-century organs were famously divided up and buried in three separate tombs across England to preserve her remains.
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Jardins de Victoria Embankment
On this smartphone walking tour, you'll find out how this lush park sits right over a massive Victorian sewage network and boasts a tree canopy dense enough to be officially classified as a forest by UN standards.
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L'aiguille de Cléopâtre
On this final tour stop, you'll hear about how the flanking Victorian sphinxes by this 3,500-year-old obelisk were accidentally installed backward, facing toward the monument instead of away to protect it.