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The Queen's Gallery was built in the shell of the former Holyrood Free Church and Duchess of Gordon’s School at the entrance to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The buildings were constructed in the 1840s with funds from the Duchess of Gordon, but fell into disuse in the late 19th century. Benjamin Tindall Architects were appointed project architects for the new Queen’s Gallery in October 1999. Their central visual theme was a celebration of The Queen’s Golden Jubilee, expressed through a series of arches and screens that lead visitors from the Gallery entrance to the exhibition spaces beyond. Their design complements the original 19th-century architecture, elements of which were incorporated into the new spaces. Unsympathetic later internal alterations were removed, and a new exposed steel and concrete floor inserted to reflect the original ‘gallery’ of the Church.   A new stone arched entrance was created at the centre of the Horse Wynd frontage, opposite the new Scottish Parliament building. The use of a stone archway, with a courtyard beyond, is a traditional entrance device in Scottish architecture. The main walling is of Catcastle stone, the dressed work and lettering is of Stainton stone and the base is of Kenmay granite. ‘THE QUEEN’S GALLERY’ lettering above the entrance is the work of John Neilson, a calligrapher and carver. The letters were cut from single pieces of stone. Above sits Scotland’s heraldic lion, designed by Jill Watson. The lion sedant is based on a small red lion that sits at the feet of Mary, Queen of Scots on her tomb in Westminster Abbey. (The Palace of Holyroodhouse was once home to Mary, Queen of Scots.)   The monumental entrance doors of oak have gilded bronze hinges by Jill Watson. Continuing the heraldic theme, the main hinges are decorated with the Scottish lion and unicorn. The beasts are set against the adjacent urban scene of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile and the rural scene of Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The upper hinges are made as golden boughs of flowering native trees – chestnut and laburnum, oak, rowan and hawthorn. The stone archway is decorated with a carved and gilded garland of Scottish flowers, including daisies and thistles, created by Graciela Ainsworth, an Edinburgh-based sculptor, carver and conservator. Over the old entrance to the former church is a stained-glass window by Christian Shaw.  The design shows a perspective drawing of the interior of a gallery. At night, the shape of the archway is reflected by the glass lights by Keiko Mukaide set into the paving. The artist has given the tiles a water flow pattern, mirroring the stream of visitors walking in and out of the Gallery. Inside, the reception desk by Hamid van Koten is made from curved pieces of Scottish elm with kilned glass and patinated copper. The pendant lights were designed and made in Edinburgh by Ingrid Phillips. Dividing the reception from the main Gallery area is a patterned glass screen by Jacqueline Poncelet. The screen’s bronze handles by Jill Watson incorporate figures looking at art in a gallery.   The dramatic central stair of native timber leads to the Gallery spaces above. The complex shape was designed by the architects with Charles Taylor Woodwork, who were responsible for the construction. Lights set into the first floor illuminate the curved balustrading.  

To prepare for the journey you are about to embark on, begin your day with a nice and warm continental breakfast including coffee, juice and bread. On the luxury bus that takes you to the mythical site, you will receive all kinds of pampering including blankets and drinks on board.  The first stop of your trip is Valladolid, an exuberant and lively colonial city. Here is where the delicious Yucatecan gastronomy was born and one of the few sites where Mayan culture is alive even to this day. After that, enter the marvellous archaeological site of Chichen Itza to contemplate how stunningly well preserved these constructions remain, unperturbed by the pass of time. This tour will also take you to Chichen Itza’s haunting and Cenote, a huge round natural pool that used to be considered sacred by the ancient Mayan peoples. It is widely agreed upon that they used to cast live people into it as sacrifices to the gods. Wrap up your day with a scrumptious buffet meal at the restaurant Hubiku. 

EDIFICIOS HISTÓRICOS Exposición del Puente de la Torre - £9 Caballerizas Reales - £9 Royal Albert Hall: tour guiado - £12’25 El Real Observatorio de Greenwich - £7’70 The Monument - £4 Banqueting House - £6 Jewel Tower - £4’20 Arco de Wellington - £4’30 Apsley House - £8’30 Casa Benjamin Franklin - £7 Palacio de Eltham - £13 La Colección Wernher en Ranger’s House - £7’20   MUSEOS Museo Imperial de Guerra - £5 El Museo del Transporte de Londres - £16 Museo Household Cavalry - £7 Museo Charles Dickens - £8 Museo London Motor - £30 Museo Guard - £6 Museo Cartoon - £7 Museo Foundling - £7’50 Museo de la Ciencia – IMAX Theatre - £11 Casa Museo Handel – £6’50 Museo London Canal - £4 Museo Royal Air Force Museo de las Marcas, Packaging y Publicidad - £7’5 Old Operating Theatre, Museum and Herb Garret - £6’50 Museo Fan - £4 Museo Firepower Royal Artillery - £5’30 Museo Florence Nightingale - £7 Museo The Garden - £7 Museo Judío - £6’50 Museo Pollock’s Toy - £6 Museo V & A: muestre un London Pass válido en el Mostrador de Información y tendrá entrada gratuita en algunas exposiciones del Museo Victoria y el Museo Albert– £7 / £16 Museo Keats - £5 Museo de la Comedia - £5’50 Handel & Hendrix - £10   LUGARES DE INTERÉS HMS Belfast - £14’50 Kew Gardens - £15 Cutty Sark - £12’15 ArcelorMittal Orbit - £15 Jardín Botánico de Chelsea - £9 London Wetland Centre - £11’23 Cuevas Chislehurst - £6   GALERÍAS La Galería de la Reina en el Buckingham Palace - £10 Galería Courtauld - £6 Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art - £5 Guidhall Art Gallery: muestre su London Pass para recibir gratis una guía (valorada en £6)   TOURS Y CRUCEROS Tour por el Wembley Stadium - £19 Tour por la Destilería Beefeater Gin - £12 Tour por el Estadio del Arsenal - £20 Tour por el Estadio del Chelsea FC - £20 Museo & Tour Experience Wimbledon - £24 Tour por el Estadio Twickenham & Museo del Rugby - £20 El Tour Sherlock Holmes - £10 Tour en Bicicleta por Londres - £23’95 Viaje en el Jason’s Canal Boat Trip - £9 Paseo del Rock’n’Roll - £9 Tour a pie por el Londres Real - £10 Tour por el Backstage del National Theatre - £8’50   OCIO Cines Curzon (Chelsea, Mayfair, Soho y Bloomsbury) - £14 / £15 Entradas para el London Brass RubbingCentre - £4’5 Namco Funscape - £3 Queens Ice – £7’50 a £13’50   Ahorre más de £420 en entradas, el precio de Adulto de todas las Atracciones que puede visitar con el Pass de 6 días. Otras Ofertas Especiales se ofrecen en la Guía, dándole acceso a otros grandes descuentos disponibles para los visitantes de Londres, incluyendo un importante ahorro para las entradas de teatro del West End, restaurantes y mucho más. ¡Puede visitar todas las atracciones que quiera e incluso más, gracias a las Entradas Express que se incluyen! No necesita llevar dinero encima y la London Pass hace que controle los gastos. ¿Cómo funciona el London Pass? El London Pass es una smart card, como una tarjeta de crédito con chip, que le permite la entrada gratuita completa a una selección de 56 atracciones de Londres. Es como un bufet libre, ya que una vez haya obtenido su London Pass no necesitará pagar para entrar en ninguna de las atracciones que este pase cubre y, cuanto más visite, más dinero ahorrará. Simplemente muestre al personal del sitio que visita su London Pass y ellos la pasarán por una maquina especial para después permitirle la entrada. Activar el London Pass: Esta smart card registra cuando y donde usa el London Pass por primera vez, así como hasta cuándo será válida. Eso significa que independientemente de la fecha de inicio que de cuando haga la compra, el London Pass se activará en el momento de su primer uso en una atracción. A partir de entonces su London Pass será válida para el número de días para los que haya compra (ya sean 1, 2, 3 o 6 días) y está sujeta al valor máximo de precio de entrada según los días que haya comprado. Es importante que tenga en cuenta que los días se basan en días de calendario, por lo que si usa su pase el Lunes a las 16:00, el Lunes se contará como un día entero en el uso de su Pase. Necesitará presentar su vale en uno de los puntos de cambio (podrá verlos en su vale) para recibir su London Pass así como detalles de todas las atracciones que puede visitar.   Todos los clientes que recojan el London Pass deben dar la siguiente documentación al personal de seguridad: - Identificación con Fotografía (Pasaporte, DNI o Carnet de Conducir) - La Tarjeta de Crédito usada para hacer la compra del London Pass. En ningún caso se entregarán pases si esta documentación.   Punto de Intercambio del Vale por el London Pass: 11ª de Charing Cross Road, Londres, WC1H 0EP Por favor tenga en cuenta que este Centro es sólo un punto de intercambio del vale y que las preguntas y quejas deben ir dirigidas a 365 Tickets.

RED LOOP The official tour of the National Mall, authorized by the National Park Service and National Mall and Memorial Parks. Take in all the places that are synonymous with the nation’s Capital; The White House, U.S. Capitol, Air and Space Museum, Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial are just some of the iconic landmarks. Commentary provided in live guided commentary and in a choice of 8 pre-recorded languages. BLUE LOOP The Heroes tour travels to the sites and memorials honoring American heroes. Travel over the Potomac River leaving Washington, DC behind and visiting Virginia. The tour’s main features are Arlington National Cemetery, the Pentagon, the Pentagon City Fashion Center, and the US Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Statue.) Other highlights include the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial, WWII Memorial and Air Force Memorial. Tour is available with live-guided commentary. YELLOW LOOP Travel through the city's historic center, passing the White House and Dupont Circle before heading out to discover Adams Morgan, the National Zoo, and the old world charm of Georgetown. Recorded commentary is available in your choice of 8 languages (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and English available). Commentary The multi lingual tours provide a personal commentary in a choice of eight languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese and Portuguese

Shearwater is a classic Newport-style schooner yacht, only recently recognized as a national landmark in 2009.  The vessel was built by Rice Brother Corporation in East Boothbay, Maine, back in a time when yachting was a rare combination of elegance and adventure; Rice Bros. were well known for building luxury pleasure yachts and produced some 4,000 hulls over a period of 64 years. The keel was laid down on January 4, 1929 and a news clip from the Boothbay Register reflects alongside a photograph "Tyler Hodgon at the old Tide Mill is getting out timbers for the schooner to be built at Rice’s. Vessel to be built of native white oak." Traditionally built from hand-hewn native white oak, she was the last boat to be constructed at that yard - likely due to the ensuing Great Depression brought on by the Stock Market Crash that occurred later that autumn.  East Boothbay was a small coastal town with shipbuilding being its only industry. About 40 workmen were employed for the construction of SHEARWATER. Her designer Theodore Donald Wells was born in Hudson Falls, N Y on October 22, 1875. He was a naval architect and marine engineer, a member of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and also the Institute of Naval Architects London. His education included post-graduate work at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. He began his career as a member of the firm Herreshoff and Wells, N. Y. City in 1902. Working with Herreshoff no doubt had an influence on his designs, which bear similarities to many of the famous Herreshoff designed yachts of that time. From 1903 to 1907 he worked for Wintringham and Wells and then began practicing his profession under his own name. Mr. Wells joined the Navy Department in March 1917 and became Superintending Constructor of the Baltimore District U. S. N. Notable yachts designed and constructed under his supervision are "Viking" a 272 foot steel motor yacht built for George F. Baker in 1929 by Newport News and "Karina" a three masted schooner built for Robert E. Tod in 1932 by Staten Island Shipbuilding. Mr. Tod was a well-known offshore yachtsman as was his former yacht ‘Thistle", which competed in the Emperors Cup ocean race. SHEARWATER was launched on May 4, 1929 and photographs in the Boothbay Register reflect her graceful and elegant lines. Her first Captain, Leon Esterbrook of Edgarton, MA, arrived to take charge of the fitting out. Her owner Charles E Dunlap was a member of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, NY and this became SHEARWATER’s first homeport after her completion in late September 1929. It was there in Oyster Bay that she first started to thrill those who sailed in luxury aboard her and those who were privileged to crew her on race day. Since her launching and documentation in Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts in 1929, she has had a colorful history and has been carefully maintained and restored to standards that few contemporary vessels are able to match and is truly a piece of American Maritime History. On November 7, 1942 SHEARWATER was requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration and became a member of The United States Coast Guard’s Coastal Picket Patrol during World War Two. She was painted gray and bore the numbers CG67004. Based at Little Creek, Virginia she patrolled the waters east of the Chesapeake Bay entrance and south towards Cape Hatteras. Her skipper during that period reflected on how they used their free time while out on submarine patrol to race against other yachts and in his own words "sailed in tandem with the schooner Lord Jim, racing in and out of port, up and down the east coast and winning." She was designed and built as a gaff rigged schooner but during this period was changed to a Marconi rig. She carries over 2,550 square feet while under full sail. A true veteran world cruiser, she first transited the Panama Canal in July 1946 and in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s completed a two and a half-year global circumnavigation. In December 1971 Mrs. John B. Thayer of Rosemont, wife of a former trustee and treasurer, donated SHEARWATER to the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Environmental Medicine. She was used by the university as a laboratory for research on physiological responses to the stresses of living and working underwater. Captained by James Shearson, she was fitted with compressors, generators, monitoring instruments and a small decompression chamber. She has participated in many Ancient Mariner and Classic yacht races in U S waters as well as racing in the Bay of Islands in New Zealand while on her circumnavigation in the early 1980’s. It is rumored she was once dismasted in the famous Newport to Bermuda race. She was last raced by the current owners in San Diego in May 1995 in the American Schooner Cup and finished second overall. She entered the yacht charter industry in 1966 whilst on the West Coast sailing to the Channel Islands and was again used to generate income to keep her shipshape while owned by the University of Pennsylvania. During the chartering industry’s infancy in the Caribbean, SHEARWATER was known as the " Queen of the Fleet". Today she continues this tradition offering the most unique sailing experience and has passed rigid Coast Guard inspections and can carry up to 49 passengers. We welcome you to join us for an excellent opportunity to experience the ambiance of a vintage sailing vessel while delighting in the splendors of The Manhattan sky-line, the Statue of Liberty or the beauty of the oceans beyond.

" This show is the story of my life, things I have experienced, seen and loved. And also stories that I have never told before! I will tackle new issues such as plastic surgery and the creatures it spawns, or the vanity fair of social media.  All that has been an inspiration for a number of new costumes. Clothes can say so much about their time, the way we relate to femininity and masculinity, sexuality, about what we consider different and where the limits of society are." Jean Paul Gaultier.