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London - Palace of Mister West

Posted by mt on 13 February 2011

The Palace of Westminster (Westminster Palace) is a monumental, neo-Gothic style building in the City of West Ermin ester in London. Together with the West Mister Abbey and St. Margaret's Church at Parliament Square, the palace was in close proximity to government offices at Whitehall in 1987, declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Palace of Westminster is the UK Parliament since 1295, which consists of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, as a parliamentary seat. For this reason it is commonly became known as the Houses of Parliament.

The oldest surviving parts of the Palace of Westminster Hall are from the year 1097 and the Jewel Tower, which was built around 1365th Originally it served as the residence of the kings of England, but since 1529 no monarch has lived there longer. Of the original building has been preserved very little, because there on the 16th October 1834 was destroyed in a devastating fire almost completely. The architects were responsible for the reconstruction of Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin.

The most famous part of the palace is the Clock Tower (Clock Tower) with the bell Big Ben. Facing him on the southwest corner is the Victoria Tower. The square tower, with its 98.45 meters, the highest tower of the building.

The main rooms of the palace are the council halls of the House of Commons and the House of Lords. There are some 1,100 additional rooms, including meeting rooms, libraries, lobbies, dining rooms, bars and gyms. The term Westminster in British parlance is often synonymous with the parliamentary business.

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Palace of Mr. West in the sunset

In this panorama is Palace of Mister West in the last light of day to see.

The recording was made on 23.06.2001 at 21:40 clock

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Palace of Mister West

The panorama shows the Lambeth Bridge, Palace of Westminster Bridge and Mister West shortly before sunset. On the right side you can still see parts of the London Eye and County Hall.

The recording was made on 23.06.2001 at 21:05 clock

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Berlin - Republic Square

Posted by mt on 28 February 2010

The Republic Square is located in the Berlin district of Tiergarten (district center) in the new government quarter near the river Spree. He is almost completely planted with grass and decorated with small hedges. In the east it is terminated by the famous Reichstag building and the north by the Paul-Loebe-Haus.

It was constructed around 1735 and has already served under King Friedrich Wilhelm I as a training ground for the Prussian soldiers, he was called "parade ground in front of the Brandenburger Tor". It was designed in 1867 as a town square and now called the Royal Palace. Before 1884 to 1894 the Reichstag building was erected in its place stood the palace of the Prussian Count Atanazy Raczyński.

By the architect Paul Wallot from 1884 to 1894, built in neo-Renaissance Reichstag, which was until 1918 the Reichstag of the German Empire and then housed the parliament of the Weimar Republic, was badly damaged by the Reichstag fire of 1933 and by the effects of the Second World War. He was restored in the 1960s in a modernized form and from 1991 to 1999, however radically redesigned to meet the demands of a modern parliament building to be.

Left of the Reichstag parliament building is located which is named after the Reichstag and the interim president of the first German Bundestag Paul Lobe (SPD) as Paul-Loebe-Haus.

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Panoramic Republic Square

The panorama shows the 36 900 square meters of space with the Republic of the Berlin Reichstag and the Paul-Loebe-Haus. It was created in HDR technique. The panorama was in the evening just after sunset. The OB vans of numerous press agencies from around the world had come to report to the Bundestag elections in 2009, two days after which the recording took place. Left in the background or any part of the Chancellor's Office and the Berlin Central Station can be seen.

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