Places of interest in Great Britain

Britain has got lots of historic places which link the present with the past. The oldest part of London is Lud Hill. Near it there is Westminster Palace, where the king lived and the Parliament met, and there is also Westminster Abbey, the coronation church. Liverpool, the "city of ships", is England's second greatest port. The most interesting sight in the Liverpool is the docks. And in the music world Liverpool is a well-known name, for it's the home town of "The Beatles". Stratford-on-Avon is not far from London. Shakespeare was born here in 1564 and here he died in 1616. Cambridge and Oxford Universities are famous centres of learning. The British Museum is the largest and richest museum in the world. It contains one of the world's richest collections of antiquities. The Egyptian Galleries contain human and animal mummies. Madam Tus Saud's Museum is an exhibition of hundreds of life-size wax models of famous people of yesterday and today. Here you can meet Marilyn Monroe, Elton John, Picasso, the Royal Family, the Beatles and many others: writers, movie stars, singers, politicians, sportsmen, etc.