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Londres / Reino Unido

Londres ) es la capital y mayor ciudad de Inglaterra y del Reino Unido.[2]​[3]​ Situada a orillas del río Támesis, Londres es un importante asentamiento humano desde que fue fundada por los romanos con el nombre de Londinium hace casi dos milenios.[4]​ El núcleo antiguo de la urbe, la City de Londres, conserva básicamente su perímetro medieval de una milla cuadrada. Desde el siglo XIX el nombre «Londres» también hace referencia a toda la metrópolis desarrollada alrededor de este núcleo.[5]​ El grueso de esta conurbación forma la región de Londres y el área administrativa del Gran Londres,[6]​ gobernado por el alcalde y la asamblea de Londres.[7]​ Londres es una ciudad global, uno de los centros neurálgicos en el ámbito de las artes, el comercio, la educación, el entretenimiento, la moda, las finanzas, los medios de comunicación, la investigación, el turismo o el transporte.[8]​ Es el principal centro financiero del mundo[9]​[10]​[11]​ y una de las áreas metropolitanas con mayor PIB.[12]​[13]​ Londres es también una capital cultural mundial,[14]​[15]​[16]​[17]​ la ciudad más visitada considerando el número de visitas internacionales[18]​ y tiene el mayor sistema aeroportuario del mundo según el tráfico de pasajeros.[19]​ Asimismo, las 43 universidades de la ciudad conforman la mayor concentración de centros de estudios superiores de toda Europa.[20]​ En el año 2012 Londres se convirtió en la única ciudad en albergar la celebración de tres Juegos Olímpicos de Verano.[21]​ En esta ciudad multirracial convive gente de un gran número de culturas que hablan más de trescientos idiomas distintos.[22]​ La Autoridad del Gran Londres estima que en 2015 la ciudad tiene 8,63 millones de habitantes,[23]​ que supone el 12,5 % del total de habitantes del Reino Unido.[24]​ El área urbana del Gran Londres, con 10 470 000[25]​ habitantes, es la segunda más grande de Europa, pero su área metropolitana, con una población estimada de entre 12 y 14 millones,[26]​[27]​ es la mayor del continente. Desde 1831 a 1925 Londres, como capital del Imperio británico, fue la ciudad más poblada del mundo.[28]​ Londres cuenta con cuatro enclaves declarados Patrimonio de la Humanidad: la Torre de Londres, el Real Jardín Botánico de Kew, el sitio formado por el Palacio, la Abadía de Westminster, la Iglesia de Santa Margarita y Greenwich .[29]​ Otros lugares famosos de la ciudad son el Palacio de Buckingham, el London Eye, Piccadilly Circus, la Catedral de San Pablo, el Puente de la Torre o Trafalgar Square. Londres cuenta también con numerosos museos, galerías de arte, bibliotecas, eventos deportivos y otras instituciones culturales como el Museo Británico, la National Gallery, la Tate Modern, la Biblioteca Británica y los cuarenta teatros del West End.[30]​ El metro de Londres, que en 2013 cumplió 150 años, es el más antiguo del mundo.[31]​[32]​

Boston Manor

Londres / Reino Unido

Boston Manor is an English Jacobean manor house built in 1622 with internal alterations, intensively restored in later centuries and Boston Manor Park is the adjoining publicly owned green space including a lake. It was the manor house of one of the early medieval-founded manors in Middlesex. Since 1965 its small part of the parish of Hanwell has been part of the London Borough of Hounslow in west London.

Cutty Sark

Londres / Reino Unido

El Cutty Sark fue, en 1869, uno de los últimos veleros de tipo clipper que se construyeron. Se conserva en dique seco en Greenwich . Fue gravemente dañado por un incendio el 21 de mayo de 2007 cuando se encontraba en plena restauración.

Conway Hall Ethical Society

Londres / Reino Unido

The Conway Hall Ethical Society, formerly the South Place Ethical Society, based in London at Conway Hall, is thought to be the oldest surviving freethought organisation in the world and is the only remaining ethical society in the United Kingdom. It now advocates secular humanism and is a member of the Humanists International.

English Folk Dance and Song Society

Londres / Reino Unido

The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society. The EFDSS, a member-based organisation, was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1935 and became a registered charity in England and Wales in 1963.

Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Londres / Reino Unido

The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art is a museum in Canonbury Square in the district of Islington on the northern fringes of central London. It is the United Kingdom's only gallery devoted to modern Italian art and is a registered charity under English law.The Estorick Collection was founded by American sociologist and writer Eric Estorick , who began to collect art when he moved to England after the Second World War. Estorick and his German-born English wife Salome discovered Umberto Boccioni’s book Futurist Painting and Sculpture while they were on their honeymoon in 1947. Before the end of their trip they visited erstwhile Futurist Mario Sironi in Milan and bought most of the contents of his studio, including hundreds of drawings. They built up the collection mainly between 1953 and 1958. The collection was shown in several temporary exhibitions, including one at the Tate Gallery in London in 1956, and the key works were on long-term loan to the Tate from 1966 to 1975. The Estoricks rejected offers to purchase their collection from the Italian government and museums in the United States and Israel. Six months prior to his death Eric Estorick set up the Eric and Salome Estorick Foundation, to which he donated all his Italian works. The Estorick Collection moved to its current premises in Northampton Lodge, previously the home and office of Sir Basil Spence, the British architect, a converted Grade II-listed Georgian house, in 1998. The project was supported by a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The core of the collection is its Futurist works, but it also includes figurative art and sculpture dating from 1890 to the 1950s. It features paintings by Futurism's main protagonists: Giacomo Balla, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Luigi Russolo and Ardengo Soffici, and works by Giorgio de Chirico, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi, Mario Sironi and Marino Marini. In addition to the main displays from the permanent collection, the Estorick Collection organises temporary exhibitions.

Fenton House

Londres / Reino Unido

Fenton House is a 17th-century merchant's house in Hampstead in North London which belongs to the National Trust, bequeathed to them in 1952 by Lady Binning, its last owner and resident. It is a detached house with a walled garden, which is large by London standards, and features a sunken garden, an orchard and a kitchen garden.

Hall Place

Londres / Reino Unido

Hall Place is a stately home in the London Borough of Bexley in south-east London, built in 1537 for Sir John Champneys, a wealthy merchant and former Lord Mayor of London. The house was extended in 1649 by Sir Robert Austen, a merchant from Tenterden in Kent. The house is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, and surrounded by a 65-hectare award-winning garden. It is situated on the A223, Bourne Road, south of Watling Street and north of the 'Black Prince' interchange of the A2 Rochester Way and the A220.

Jewish Museum London

Londres / Reino Unido

The Jewish Museum London is a museum of British Jewish life, history and identity. The museum is situated in Camden Town in the London Borough of Camden, North London. It is a place for people of all faiths to explore Jewish history, culture, and heritage. The museum has a dedicated education team, with an extensive programme for schools, community groups and families. Charles, Prince of Wales is a patron of the museum.The events, programmes and activities at the museum aim to provoke questions, challenge prejudice, and encourage understanding.

Kensington Town Hall, London

Londres / Reino Unido

Kensington Town Hall is a municipal building in Hornton Street, Kensington, London. It is the headquarters of Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council.