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Published: March 10th 2013
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Every year millions of Londoners and tourists visit Hyde Park, one of the capital's eight Royal Parks.Hyde Park covers 350 acres and is home to a number of famous landmarks including the Serpentine Lake, Speakers' Corner and the
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain.The park also offers various recreational activities including
open water swimming,
boating,
cycling,
tennis and
horse riding.When King Henry VIII and his court were thundering across Hyde Park in 1536 in pursuit of deer and wild boar, it would have been difficult to visualise that years later the noble art of tai chi would be peacefully performed among the trees in the early morning, and the Italianate tenor of Pavarotti would echo across the park, applauded by vast audiences. There are plenty of entertainment and sights in hyde park. The Park has two lakeside restaurants which are licensed and serve everything from a three-course meal to a quick cup of coffee. Hyde Park is home to a number of fascinating buildings and monuments, such as The Serpentine Bridge, the Joy of Life fountain and the famous Archiles statue. And with the Diana Memorial Fountain and open air events throughout the year, there’s always something to see and do. If you’re out and about on Sunday, head to
Speaker’s Corner to hear London’s most vocal orators share their opinions with the world.
Winter wonderland event is amazing event that takes place between November and December with brillrant sights ice skating ice kingdom fairground lots markets its a great festive atmosphere with lots of music and band best fun I've experianced and it's free entry.
Sites of interest in the park include
Speakers' Corner (located in the northeast corner near
Marble Arch), close to the former site of the
Tyburn gallows, and
Rotten Row, which is the northern boundary of the site of
the Crystal Palace. South of the Serpentine is the
Diana, Princess of Wales memorial, an oval stone ring fountain opened on 6 July 2004. To the east of the Serpentine, just beyond the dam, is London's
Holocaust Memorial. Another memorial in the park commemorates the victims of
7/7 terrorist attacks, in the form of 52 steel pillars—one for each of the dead.
A botanical curiosity is the Weeping Beech,
Fagus sylvatica pendula, cherished as "the upside-down tree". Opposite Hyde Park Corner stands one of the grandest hotels in London,
The Lanesborough (Formerly—until the early 1970s—St George's Hospital). Stanhope Lodge (Decimus Burton, 1824–25) at Stanhope Gate, demolished to widen
Park Lane, was the home of
Samuel Parkes who won the
Victoria Cross in the
Charge of the Light Brigade. After leaving the army, Parkes became inspector of the park's constables, and died in the lodge on 14 November 1864. A
rose garden, designed by Colvin & Moggridge Landscape Architects, was added in 1994.
Hyde Park has been the venue for some famous
rock concerts, including the major location for the
Live 8.
There are five
London Undergroundstations located on or near the edges of Hyde Park and
Kensington Gardens (which is contiguous with Hyde Park). In clockwise order starting from the south-east, they are:
Hyde Park Corner (
Piccadilly Line)
Knightsbridge(Piccadilly Line)
Queensway (
Central Line)
Lancaster Gate(Central Line)
Marble Arch (Central Line)
Bayswater tube station, on the Circle and
District Lines, is also close to Queensway station and the north-west corner of the park.
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