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The Tower of London

Written by on July 11, 2010 – 6:52 am7 Comments | 85 Read this

Her Majesty’s Royal Palace and Fortress, the Tower of Lon­don, is actu­ally more a cas­tle than a tower. It is among all famous for being the home of the Crown Jew­els of the United Kingdom.

The cas­tle is made of sev­eral build­ings set within two con­cen­tric rings of defen­sive walls, and a moat, which is now dry. Cur­rently stored in the Water­loo Bar­racks, the Crown Jew­els are one of the main attrac­tions. No pic­ture was allowed and the Yeomen Warders, the cer­e­mo­nial guardians, make sure that every­body respect the rule — I only took a pic­ture of the door. Pretty impres­sive jew­els and dia­monds, trust me!

There are quite a few other exhi­bi­tions high­light­ing the his­tory of the Tower as a prison, as an armory, a trea­sury and the national mint.

You can fol­low our trip to the U.K here on Flickr: United King­dom.

Medieval Age

Win­dow on the Castle

Wait­ing to Get In

Yeo­man at the Door

Defend­ing the Castle

Eng­lish Guard

Detail of a Lamp post

Can­nons

Red Coat and Buttons

Detail of an Armor

Guard­ing the Crown Jewels

Old and New

Gen­eral

Door of the Crown Jewels

Lit­tle Eng­lish Soldiers

Related arti­cles:

  1. Along the River Thames
  2. Close Up of the Cana­dian Parliament
  3. His­toric Nantes
  4. Sights of Paris (Part II)
  5. Europe in our Eyes

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  • Very nice out­door shots! I am also frus­trated when­ever I can­not take pic­tures inside, but at the same time, I under­stand that tak­ing pho­tos do dam­age to the exhibits in some form.

  • Yogi says:

    I loved the Tower of Lon­don, the Crown Jew­els, and all that. I remem­ber the guards were very active. They don’t like you sit­ting stuff down like back­packs and walk­ing off and there are always peo­ple who don’t get that. The guards would chew them out royally.

    Lots of and lots of history.

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