Westminter Palace

Westminster Palace, also referred to as the Houses of Parliament, is a Gothic style building where the House of Commons and the House of Lords meet.

Old Palace: In October 1834, a devastating fire destroyed the old palace, which had been headquarters to the Parliament since 1512. The palace was also a royal residence since the reign of William the Conqueror.

New Palace: In 1847, the building was practically finished with 1,200 rooms, 11 courtyards, and 2,1 miles of corridors.The sumptuous façade offers a breath-taking panorama, where you can see the gilded pinnacles and the statues of the English kings reflected in the Thames. Victoria Tower, the largest and tallest tower, is found in the south-western part of the Palace, where a copy of all of Parliament's laws is kept. On the north side of the Palace is the world-famous tower, Big Ben.

Tower of London

The Tower of London is a historic castle located on the north bank of the River Thames in central London.  The White Tower  was built by William the Conqueror in 1078 and was a resented symbol of oppression, inflicted upon London by the new ruling elite. As a whole, the Tower is a complex of several buildings set within two concentric rings of defensive walls and a moat. The Tower of London has played a prominent role in English history. It was besieged several times, and controlling it has been important to controlling the country.The White Tower is a keep (also known as a donjon), which was often the strongest structure in a medieval castle, and contained lodgings suitable for the lord – in this case, the king or his representative.The innermost ward encloses an area immediately south of the White Tower, stretching to what was once the edge of the River Thames.

Tower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspention bridge in London built between 1886 and 1894. The bridge crosses the River Thames close to the Tower of London and has become an iconic symbol of London.Tower Bridge is one of five London bridges now owned and maintained by the Bridge House Estates, a charitable trust overseen by the City of London Corporation.The bridge consists of two bridge towers tied together at the upper level by two horizontal walkways, designed to withstand the horizontal tension forces exerted by the suspended sections of the bridge on the landward sides of the towers. The vertical components of the forces in the suspended sections and the vertical reactions of the two walkways are carried by the two robust towers. The bascule pivots and operating machinery are housed in the base of each tower.

Tower Bridge