Thames since slightly shallow and flowing into it once in these places Taybernsky flow, as well as our , now hid under the ground. Therefore, long island ceased to be an island. Here, in Westminster is located and the Palace of Westminster, built in the reign of Knut the Great in the first half of xi century. True, after a fire on Oct. 16, 1834 Palace built anew, and from the former Westminster Palace of Westminster remained a reception hall and the tower of jewels.
Until 1529 the palace was the residence of the kings, and now is the seat of Parliament. In the palace there are 1,200 rooms, 100 staircases, and the length corridors is five kilometers. Towers of the palace's most famous clock tower of Big Ben and the Tower of Victoria. On the other side of the Thames opposite Westminster is Southwark – the third largest district of London. C Westminster it is connected to Tower Bridge and on the City – a new bridge – London.
If the first bridge was opened on June 30, 1894, that only the March 17, 1973. True, the bridges in place and that both existed in Roman times. Now The region, which used to be Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the madhouse called Bedlam, who made his name a household word, is built up with modern buildings, and the last recall here only Sautvorksky Cathedral, built in the years 1220-1420, but the Imperial War Museum moved here in 1924 in the former building of the Imperial Institute.