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Gabriela Merghes- student in theIX th D grade at CNME highschool

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Wonderful London

London is a wonderful place to be!It has great museums with priceless exhib-

its , old markets , clean green parks and the best shops and night clubs in Europe.There is something for everyone. Londonis on the River Thames about 40 milesfrom the sea. Now London has around 7 million people living in and around it. It isa financial and cultural centre but isprobably most famous for being the homeof the British monarchy. You can see theChanging of the Guard everyday outsideBuckingham Palace. You can travel on thebus , train , the underground or taxi to get to different places in the centre and around the town. London has 3 main air-ports: Heathrow which is the biggest ,Gatwick and Stansted.

LONDON

Gabriela Merghes student in theIXth D grade at CNME

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The modern Enviro400 double-decker bus

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London is one of the world's most important business,financial and cultural centers and its influence in poli-tics, education, entertainment, media, fashion and thearts contributes to its status as a major globalcity.Central London is the headquarters of more thanhalf of the UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE100) and over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies.The city is a major tourist destination for both domes-

tic and overseas visitors, with annual expenditure bytourists of around 15 billion. London hosted the 1908and 1948 Summer Olympic Games and will host the2012 Summer Olympic Games.

Greater London contains four World Heritage Sites:the Tower of London; the historic settlement of Greenwich; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and thesite comprising the Palace of Westminster, Westmin-ster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church.

London currently has a wide range of peoples, cultures,and religions, and over 300 languages are spoken withinthe city. As of July 2007, it had an official population of 7,556,900 within the boundaries of Greater Londonmaking it the most populous municipality in the Euro-pean Union. As of 2001, the Greater London UrbanArea is the second largest in the EU after Paris with apopulation of 8,278,251, and the metropolitan area isestimated to have a total population of between12 million and 14 million, the largest metropolitan areain the EU. The public transport network, administeredby Transport for London, is one of the most extensivein the world, Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport in

London is the capital of both England and theUnited Kingdom, and the most populous munici-pality in the European Union. while the 1st big-gest urban area before Paris (see Largest urbanareas of the European Union). An important set-tlement for two millennia, London's history goesback to its founding by the Romans.Since itsfoundation, London has been part of many move-ments and phenomena throughout history, in-cluding the English Renaissance, the Industrial

Revolution, and the Gothic Revival.The city'score, the ancient City of London, still retains itslimited medieval boundaries; but since at leastthe 19th century, the name "London" has alsoreferred to thewhole metropo-lis that has devel-oped around it.Today the bulk of this conurba-

tion forms theLondon region of England and theGreater Londonadminis t ra t ivearea, with itsown electedmayor and as-sembly.

City Hall

the world by international passenger traffic and theair space is the busiest of any city in the world.

The largest parks in the central area of London arethe Royal Parks of Hyde Park and its neighbor Ken-sington Gardens at the western edge of central Lon-don and Regent's Park on the northern edge. [133] This

park contains London Zoo, the world's oldest scien-tific zoo, and is located near the tourist attraction of Madame Tussauds Wax Museum. Closer to centralLondon are the smaller Royal Parks of Green Park and St. James's Park. [136] Hyde Park in particular ispopular for sports and sometimes hosts open-airconcerts.

A number of large parks lie outside the city centre,including the remaining Royal Parks of GreenwichPark to the south-east [137] and Bushy Park and Rich-mond Park to the south-west, [138][139] as well as Victo-

ria Park, East London to the east. Primrose Hill tothe north of Regent's Park is a popular spot to viewthe city skyline. Some more informal, semi-naturalopen spaces also exist, including the 791-acre(3.2 km 2) Hampstead Heath of North London. Thisincorporates Kenwood House, the former statelyhome and a popular location in the summer monthswhere classical musical concerts are held by the lake,attracting thousands of people every weekend toenjoy the music, scenery and fireworks .

Gabriela Merghes- student in the IX th D grade atCNME highschool

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City Hall at night,home of the Greater London Authori ty

City of London

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