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Great Britain

Exceptional sights

Discover the British Monarchy and all its exceptional castles and sites: Buckingham Palace, Balmoral, Windsor,…;
Edinburgh: The Castle, St Gilles Cathedral of Edimbourg, Charlotte Square;
Stonehenge.

Population:

Capital: London

Currency: Pounds

Language: English, Welsh (26% in Wales), Scottish form of Gaelic (60,000 in Scotland)

Size:

Time Zone :UTC 0


	Universities Oxford and Cambridge To be or not to be? Theatre and Plays of William Shakespeare Monarchy Royal Landmarks outside London (Glamis, Balmoral, …)

Museums

The British Museum, Tate Gallery (very modern), National Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum (decorative arts), Science Museum, Natural History Museum, National Railway Museum, National Automobile Museum, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Ironbridge Gorge Museum, National Gallery of Scotland.

Historical

In London

Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, St-Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Palace, Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall.

Castles and Houses

Alnwick Castle, Corsham Court, Berkeley Castle, Hampton Court, Greenwich Royal Observatory, Blenheim Palace home of the Duke of Malborough, Royal Pavilion of Brighton, Caernarfon Castle (Edward I), Chatsworth Palace belong to Duke of Devonshire, Conwy Castle, Drumlanring Castle, Dunster Castle, Glamis Castle, Grampian’s Castle Country (Haddo House, Fyvie Castle, Crathes Castle, Castle Fraser …), Harlech Castle (built in 1283), Hatfield House (Jacobean House), Horward Castle, Inveraray Castle of the Duke of Argyll, Longleat House and lions, Montacute House: Elizabethan Stone built house in Somerset, Petworth House, Windsor Castle (and St-George Chapel).

Abbeys and Cathedrals

St-Machar’s Cathedral in Aberdeen, Canterbury Cathedral, St Edmundsbury Abbey, Ely Cathedral, Exeter Cathedral, Fountains Abbey, Glasgow Cathedral, Glastonbury Abbey, Lincoln Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, Wells’ Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, Windsor Castle (and St-George Chapel).

Other Interests

Kew gardens, Hadrian’s Wall

Natural

Home of Robin Hood - Sherwood - Nottingham forest, Cornwall Coast Path, Dee Valley, Elan Valley, Exmoor National Park, Cairngorms, Glen Coe, Lake District, Peak District National Park, Pembrokeshire, Snowdonia National Park, Trossachs National Park (Scotland), Wester Ross, Loch Ness legend.

Cities

Caernarfon, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cotswolds, Culross, Durham, Glasgow, Oxford, York, Edimburg, Aberdeen, Avebury, Beaulieu, Brighton, Bristol, Clifton, Cairngorms, Chester, Chipping Campden, Dartmoor, Darmouth, Dunster, Exeter, Lincoln, London, Norwich, Orkney Island, Rye, Salisbury, Stirling, Wells.

Sports

Manchester United, St Andrews, Formula 1 Grand Prix.

Food

Plum Pudding,

Tea,

Cadbury World - Visit the first Cadbury factory,

UNESCO

World Heritage sites of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Cultural
Blaenavon Industrial Landscape (2000)
Blenheim Palace (1987)
Canterbury Cathedral, St Augustine's Abbey, and St Martin's Church (1988)
Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (1986)
City of Bath (1987)
Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006)
Derwent Valley Mills (2001)
Durham Castle and Cathedral (1986)
Frontiers of the Roman Empire (1987)
Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999)
Historic Town of St George and Related Fortifications, Bermuda (2000)
Ironbridge Gorge (1986)
Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City (2004)
Maritime Greenwich (1997)
New Lanark (2001)
Old and New Towns of Edinburgh (1995)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (2003)
Saltaire (2001)
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites (1986)
Studley Royal Park including the Ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986)
Tower of London (1988)
Westminster Palace, Westminster Abbey and Saint Margaret's Church (1987)
Natural
Dorset and East Devon Coast (2001)
Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast (1986)
Gough and Inaccessible Islands (1995)
Henderson Island (1988)
Mixte
St Kilda (1986)

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