The Big Ben
Big Ben is located in the great city of London was designed by Charles Barry and built the palace after the fire was located in the same place which is located the tower in 1834 caused that fire, which was one of several ways to remember that situation.
It is certainly one of the most important when we visited London for which they are very satisfied, since the most famous Big Ben tower with clocks that it protects the great campaign of Westminster earnestly that this right on the corner of the Houses British Parliament and located just across the river Thames.
It is one of the most reliable watches the world, this was created by Beckett Deninson. Few people have been able to visit Big Ben, because usually when we approached the clock tower, Big Ben is certainly not what we see but if you hear every hour. As the tower as part of the mechanism of the four clocks that you can see, there are five bells in the largest of the bells that rang every hour is just Big Ben.
It is named for the resemblance to London’s foreman named Benjamin. once built the tower, the name had a very strong punch, and now Big Ben mentioned several times to enter the tower into a definition.
This tower has a height of 96.3 meters with Victorian Gothic style. the tower began in 1859, making it one of the most beautiful clock tower in the world and in that time.
The Big Ben like all ancient architecture has suffered certain events, as in the new year of 1963 (old year 1962), when the snow packed into the needles, he would delay the entry is 10 minutes in the New Year, which desperfección only suffered in its history in 1976, returning to operate the following year.
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