Chapter 323: Fashion City

London is one of the four most famous fashion cities in the world, the other three cities are: Paris, New York and Milan. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The world-famous Harrods department store is located in the city of London, which is the largest city and the largest economic and financial center in Europe.

More than 2,000 years ago, the Romans founded the city. London has been a huge influence in the world for hundreds of years. The heart of the city, the City of London, still maintains the boundaries that have been demarcated since the Middle Ages.

However, since the 19th century at the latest, the name "London" has also referred to the surrounding area that developed around the City of London. These satellite cities make up the metropolitan area of London and Greater London.

London is a very diverse metropolis with residents from all over the world, ethnicity, religion and culture, and more than 300 languages spoken in the city.

At the same time, London is also a world-famous tourist destination, with a large number of attractions and museums.

London is one of the four world-class cities, along with New York in the United States, Tokyo in Japan, and Paris in France.

From 1801 to the beginning of the 20th century, as the capital of the British Empire, a world empire, London became the largest city in the world at that time because of its outstanding achievements in politics, economy, humanities and culture, scientific and technological inventions.

London is the largest economic center in Europe. The financial sector is the most important pillar of London's economy.

The largest city in Europe. It is the world's largest financial center along with New York in the United States, and is known as "Newlen Harbor" along with New York in the United States and Hong Kong in China.

London is located on the plains of southeastern England, across the River Thames. After the 16th century, with the rapid rise of the British Empire, the scale of London also expanded rapidly.

London is the political, economic, cultural and financial center of the United Kingdom and a world-famous tourist destination, with a large number of attractions and museums. London is a diverse metropolis with people from all over the world, a melting pot of races, religions and cultures, and more than 300 languages spoken, a model of globalisation.

At the beginning of the 20th century, most Londoners used coal as a household fuel, producing a lot of smoke. This smog, combined with London's climate, has created London's "famous" haze, known in English as London Fog. As a result, the English sometimes refer to London as "The Smoke", hence the name "The Smoke Capital".

In 1956, the government introduced the Clean Air Act, which banned the use of smoke-producing fuels in parts of London, after 4,000 deaths in the London smog incident between 5 and 9 December 1952.

Today, London's air quality has improved significantly.

London is a world-renowned tourist city with many world-famous heritage sites. On Tower Hill in the southeast corner of the city, the Tower of London was built, which was used as a military fortress, a royal palace, a prison, an archive, an exhibition of crowns and weapons, and a crown with 3,000 precious stones worn by Queen Victoria at her coronation and a crown set with a large 109-carat diamond "Star of Africa" worn by Elizabeth II at her coronation.

Situated on the west bank of the River Thames, the Palace of Westminster was built in 750 AD on 8 acres and is the largest Gothic building in the world. It was the king's palace in ancient times and is now the seat of the British Parliament. The Victoria Tower in the southwest corner of the palace, 100 meters high, is an all-stone structure used to store the documents and archives of the Parliament, and the white gate under the tower is only for the use of the British king. In the northeast corner of the palace is the 97-meter-high bell tower, on which the famous "Big Ben" weighs 21 tons, the dial diameter is 7 meters, and the pendulum weighs 305 kilograms.

Hyde Park is one of London's most famous attractions, located in the western part of the London metropolitan area, covering 636 acres, making it the largest park in the city. The park is home to the famous "Speakers' Corner", also known as the "Freedom Forum".

On weekends, people come here almost all day long to give speeches, except for the prohibition of attacking the queen and promoting violent revolutions.

London is a bustling city with lots of traffic, and many of the buildings are relics of the Victorian era. The tallest building in the urban area is the Post and Telecommunications Tower, which is 189 meters high. It has the Royal Society, the University of London, the British Museum, and the British Library (7 million volumes).

In 1864 the First International was founded here. Marx, Engels and Lenin, the great teachers of the proletarian revolution, led the international workers' movement here; There are many famous buildings such as Torwell Castle (built in 1087), St Paul's Church (110 meters high), Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, etc. The original site of the Greenwich Observatory in the southeast of the city is the starting point of the earth's longitude (prime meridian).

If the River Thames is the Milky Way, then the parts of London are the stars around the Milky Way, with Trafalgar Square in the heart.

From here, it takes no more than 45 minutes to walk to all the main attractions. The metro station is centred around Charing Cross Station, which takes only 15 minutes to reach the main attractions. Head to the National Gallery across the square and decide which direction to go later.

To the east, you can explore the city of London and the Tower of London. The best way west to the West is for entertainment and shopping. To the north, you can visit the British Museum, a cultural heritage of humanity. To the south, listen to the roar of the Elizabeth Tower, and then take a commemorative photo at Buckingham Palace. Since the Romans settled here, bridges have been built over the Thames, and 28 bridges of different architectural styles connect the banks of the Thames.

The Waterloo Bridge was named by the British to commemorate General Wellington's defeat of Napoleon. The most beautiful bridge is Tower Bridge, which is unique and imposing in style, with 5-storey towers built on two huge piers.

The bridge deck is open, and the bridge deck can be lifted separately whenever a ship above the bridge deck passes. Connecting the top floors of the twin towers is a footbridge 140 meters above the water, offering stunning views of the surrounding area. The City of London was formed around the city of London.

Standing at the top of the tower, you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of the surrounding area.

London is a shopper's paradise, with both long-established shops serving the British royal family and street open-air shops, most of which are open from 10:00 to 18:00, and many are open until 19:00 or 20:00 on Thursdays, a late-night shopping day. Many of the small street shops are still open on weekends, attracting many women.

There are two major sales in London every year, with summer sales ranging from around 30% to 50% in the third cycle from the fourth week of June to the second week of July. The winter sale is about 40%-60% from Christmas to the end of January.

Retailers in the UK can be broadly divided into department stores, specialty stores, supermarkets, street shops, markets, Chinatown shops, etc. Department stores and traditional specialty stores, the so-called High Street Shop, generally have better service and a full range of goods, but they are more expensive.

Supermarkets offer a wide range of food and necessities at reasonable prices. The small street shops are more convenient, but the prices are not cheap. The real bargain is the goods in the bazaar. The bazaar is similar to the rental mall in China, consisting of a large mall sub-leased to a number of small merchants, and there are all kinds of shops.

The city is still very attractive to young men and women from all over the world.

A lot of young people, going there, women like to go shopping and good food, men, uh, of course, want to have a romantic affair...... This is something I want to do but don't want to say. For some men, a city without sexual encounters is not a good city.

Of course, for some sullen women, why don't they crave such an affair? It's just that most women bury this desire deep in their hearts.