The Big Ben

This one is a documentary of the bbc of fireworks londres of the new alive year in the big ben:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1yLRK2M8YQ


The Big Ben is the clock placed in the side northwest of the Palace of Westminster, the headquarters of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, in London, 1 and popularly for extension it is in use for naming also to the clock of the tower. His official name was Clock Tower until on June 26, 2012, in honor to the diamond jubilee the queen Isabel II, decided that the tower would happen to be been called Elizabeth Tower (Isabel's tower).

The tower shelters the biggest clock of four faces of the world, and is the third tower of clock more discharge of the world. It celebrated his 150 anniversary on May 31, 2009, and there were carried out diverse acts of conmemoración. The tower was completed in 1858 and the clock entered functioning on September 7, 1859. It has turned into one of the most famous symbols of London and England.

The tower is designed in Neogothic style and has a height of 96,3 meters (about 16 floors). In spite of being one of the most famous tourist attractions of the world, the interior of the tower is not opened foreign visitors. The residents in the United Kingdom can request a visit in advance across the Parliament. The tower does not have elevator, for what the visitors must raise 334 steps of stone up to the top part.

Four wings of the clock and his spheres were designed by Augustus Pugin. Augustus Pugin. Every wings are formed by a spherical structure of iron of 7 meters that contains 312 pieces of opaque crystal, as a window. Some of these pieces they can withdraw to check the handles of the clock. The frames of the spheres are golden. In the base of every face of the clock, done with letters of brass, there is an inscription in Latin: LATIN TEACHER SALVAM FAC REGINAM NOSTRAM VICTORIAM PRIMAM (God guards our queen Victoria I).