Showing posts with label Marble Arch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marble Arch. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 January 2011

Interesting facts about London

Did you know this about London? - Here are a few facts that might make your stay in London and at Boutique London Lets even more interesting.



  • The well known Marble Arch was originally built as the entrance to Buckingham Palace, but was never used. There is actually a tiny police station inside it that is no longer in use nowadays. 
  • The Houses of Parliament also known as the Palace of Westminster, has over 1,100 rooms, 100 staircases and 5 km of corridors.
  • It takes 61 seconds to open Tower Bridge, which opens 1,000 times a year. 
  • If London was a country, it would be the 8th biggest in Europe
  • There are more languages spoken in London than in any other city in the world. 
  • The London Eye has 32 pods and each of them represents one of the London boroughs 
  • There are no roads in the city square mile, only streets, places, gardens and courts