United-Kingdom: attractions and places of interest

Portmeirion Village is a combination of a fantastic village and unusual gardens, created by Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, a famous Welsh architect. He began construction in 1927 on his private peninsula on the west coast of Snowdonia, incorporating it into the architecture of the wooded hillsid...

Durham Castle is located on a peninsula overlooking the River Wear, as is Durham Cathedral. It is one of the first fortified castles built by William the Conqueror during the suppression of uprisings among the Anglo-Saxons. In the Middle Ages, the building served as a center of power to counter the ...

The Tate Modern Gallery is located in London, it is one of the most famous attractions in the UK. The Tate is one building for four different art galleries. At the time of its opening in 2000, the building was beautifully decorated, and the collection was organized according to a thematic scheme. Ev...

Westminster Cathedral is known as the Cathedral of the Precious Blood, at the end of the Victorian period it replaced the Cathedral of St. George A. V. Pugin, which became the leading Roman Catholic Church not only in the capital, but also in the country. In preparation for the design of the buildin...

Bamburg is a beautifully located castle built on basalt deposits high above a sandy beach, overlooking the North Sea and the Farne Islands. The current building dates back to the 12th century and was restored by the first Lord Crewe in the 1750s and then by the first Lord Armstrong in the late Victo...

Durham Cathedral is a wonderful reminder of the era of princes and bishops. This building combines three main innovations of the revolutionary Gothic style.: pointed arches, ribbed vaults and archbuttons. Durham is one of the peaks of cathedral architecture in this or any other country. The History...

The Orkney Islands are 70 small islands, 20 of which are inhabited. They are located 16 km north of mainland Scotland, on one of the most dangerous sections of the UK with the strongest tidal currents, known as the Pentland Firth. The main island is known as the Mainland and has the town of Kirkwall...

Mount Snowdon, also known as Yr Wyddfa, stands 1,085 meters above sea level and is the highest mountain in Wales and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands. Yr Wyddfa translates from Welsh as the Great Tomb or the Great Throne. The English name comes from the Saxon "Sn...

The world's first cast-iron bridge was built across the River Severn in Colebrookdale in 1779. This world-famous monument gave its name to the city that grew up around it and the impressive forest gorge that was the cradle of the industrial revolution. Strategic importance Ironbridge Gorge is loca...

Bodiam Castle is a 14th-century moated castle built in 1385. It was around the height of the Hundred Years' War, which lasted from 1337 to 1453. The castle is located near a village called "Robertsbridge", East Sussex, southeastern England. The idea of emergence Initially, Edward Dalingrigge had n...