Проект "Sights of the world. Buckingham Palace"

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Buckingham Palace - the official London residence of British monarchs (now -Queen Elizabeth II). Located opposite the street Pall Mall and Green Park with a white marble monument with a gold Queen Victoria. When the monarch is in the palace, over the roof of the palace flies the Royal Standard.

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History Originally Buckingham Palace was known as Buckingham House, and was built for the Duke of Buckingham (from 1703). It was purchased by King George III in 1762as the future monarch's private residence (the official residence of the St. James'sPalace ceased to hold it and the size and finish). Over the next 75 years, architects John Nash and Edward Blore (Author Alupka Palace), based on Buckingham House, built three similar buildings. All together form in terms of square in the center of which - a large courtyard.

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The palace was officially announced as the main residence of British monarchs foraccession to the throne of Queen Victoria in 1837. Her reign was made the lastgreat additions, the construction of another wing, and the transfer of the former front entrance, Marble Arch, to its present location near the corner of the Oratory in Hyde Park. Before the gates of the palace is a monument in honor of Queen Victoria.The cost of construction has reached 700,000 pounds through the use of suchluxuries as 500 blocks of Carrara marble with veins. By 1853 it was finished very spacious and richly decorated with a room of the palace - ballroom, whose length is 36 meters, width - 18 meters. It was built on the orders of Queen Victoria and first used in 1856 for the reception in honor of the Crimean War. Victoria's son and heir, Edward VII, was born in 1841 in this palace, and here he died in 1910. Despite the exuberant apartment of the palace, which houses many family jewels, not everyone who lived there were happy. In his memoirs, the Duke of Windsor, wrote that the great palace, "with its great halls and endless corridors filled with the smell of mildew appeared, which I still feel every time I go into it."

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Interiors and Features The original interior included georgiansky artificial marble and lapis blue and pink.King Edward VII greatly altered his style of French Belle Époque in cream and goldtones . Many smaller reception rooms are furnished in Chinese style furniture fromthe Royal Pavilion at Brighton and from Carlton Hausa.

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At present, the palace comprises 775 rooms. Of these, 19 are state rooms, 52royal and guest and 188 staff, 92 offices and 72 bathrooms. It occupies 20 hectares, of which 17 acres - garden. The gardens of Buckingham Palace - the largest private gardens in London, was originally divided into a great LancelotBrown , but later redivision Eyltonom William and John Nash. Large artificial pondwas completed in 1828.

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The palace is the queen art collection with works by Rembrandt, Rubens and others in the collection are also found French Sevres porcelain, French and English furniture. The Palace has a swimming pool, post office, as well as its own movie theater. In two months (August and September), the Queen leaves Buckingham Palace. In these months, the ceremonial chambers of the palace are open tovisitors .

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Tourism The court's Palace guards battalion, consisting of a regiment of the Guards Corpsand the Royal Horse-Guards. Every day at 11:30 from April to August (in the rest of the year - every other day) changing of the guard ceremony takes place. This isperhaps the most famous ceremony in London, it attracts many tourists. In the summer palace is visited by 30,000 guests, that participate in receptions in the royal garden, where there is a lake and waterfalls. Complete picture of thenatural world flamingo birds, which do not violate the peace of the king, evenhelicopters circling over the garden.