London

Everyone knows the famous attraction points of London - The St. Paul Cathedral, Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey. But in this fascinating city there are many other "side roads" and places that are worth discovering.

London is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, being both full of history and modern at the same time. Westminster Abbey serves as the headquarters for the British government. The royal residence is also found in London, at Buckingham, as well as the most important art galleries and museums of the country. One of seven British people live in London, a city with an amazing adaptability - having progressed along the way from being a roman fort in the Middle Ages to the rank of Medieval Town, and finally to the rank of a reborn Phoenix Baroque, after the Great Fire of 1666. After that, London transformed itself in an ideal of georgian elegance and a powerful center of an Empire that binds together elements of well-being and poverty; after that   becoming one of the cities that played a crucial role in the second world war - just to become, soon after, the dancing capital of Europe in the '60s.
Nowadays London looks like a giant ant-farm that is preparing for the 2012 Olympic games. In the next articles we will review the places to visit while in London.