Category Archives: Lo+ British

The palace of Westminster

  • The palace of Westminster has got the House of commons, the House of lord, the Big ben and the Westminster Bridge.

  • His location is on the center of London.

  • The Westminster Bridge it s on the river Thames.

  • The palace was built in 1016 but the palace burnt in 1834 and in 1840 was built again.

Windsor castle

The Windsor castle is the residence of the royal family the castle was built on the 1066 for William conqueror. This building is on the county of Berkshire. This castle have a chapel it name is San George. The river Thames and the walls protect the castle for the wars. The round tower was built for Henry II on the 10th century.

NOTTING HILL CARNIVAL

The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that has taken place since 1966 on the streets of Notting Hill, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, each August over two days (the August bank holiday Monday and the preceding Sunday). It is led by members of the British West Indian community, and attracts around one million people annually, making it one of the world’s largest street festivals, and a significant event in British culture.In 2006, the UK public voted it onto the list of icons of England. Despite its name, it is not part of the global Carnival season preceding Lent.

UNITED KINGDOM

England is one of the four constituent nations of the United Kingdom. Its territory is geographically formed by the southern and central part of Great Britain, an island that shares with Scotland and Wales, and about 100 smaller islands like the Isle of Sorlingas and the Isle of Wight. It is bordered to the north by Scotland, west by Wales – its two land borders – to the northwest by the Irish Sea, to the southwest by the Celtic Sea, to the east by the North Sea and to the south by the Channel.

The territory of present-day England has been inhabited by various cultures for about 35 000 years, but takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who settled there during the 5th and 6th centuries. It became a unified state in the year 927 and since the age of discovery, which began in the 15th century, has had a great cultural and legal impact throughout the world. The English language, the Anglican Church and the Law of England – taken as the basis for the legal system of many other countries in the world – developed in England, and the parliamentary system of government has been widely adopted by other nations.

The Kingdom of England – which since 1284 also included Wales – was an independent state until 1707, when the Act of Union with Scotland was signed, to create the Kingdom of Great Britain. In 1801 Ireland joined the Kingdom of Great Britain thus creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1922. With the independence and partition of Ireland since then it is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.