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The
City
The City on week-days is the
busiest place in London
with its numerous banks, offices, insurance companies and different firms. Now
you will probably not see the legendary clerk in a dark suit and a bowler hat
there. They are in the past. But the City is still the country's business and
financial centre and its streets are always full of hurrying people and
transport, souvenir street vendors, tourists and policemen.
Tourists
are attracted by the Bank of
England, the Stock and the Royal Exchange, the Old Bailey which is the
popular
name of the Central Criminal Court of London, the Barbican Cultural
centre with
the Museum of London
and the London
home of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is much quieter in the City at
the
weekend, as nobody lives there, but there are always a lot of people in
St. Paul's Cathedral which is the parish church of Commonwealth of
Nations and one of the most beautiful buildings
in the world. Its construction was completed at the beginning of the
18th
century and it replaced the older cathedral that was destroyed by the
Great
Fire of London in 1666. The Cathedral is the masterpiece of the famous
British
architect Sir Christopher Wren whose tomb can be seen in the crypt. It is the seat of the Bishop of
London. Besides its significance to the British believers and its beauty, St. Paul's Cathedral has
another unique attraction -the Whispering Gallery which runs right round the
inside of the lower section of the dome. If someone who is standing near the
wall on one side whispers some words, they can be heard near the wall on the
opposite side, 32 metres
away.
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