London

Pascal, Marvin


Basic informations:
London is the capital of england and is inhabited by 7.512.400 people. London is on the island greatbritten and has a 1572 square kilometers big area! It was founded in 47 after birth of christus by the romans.



Today London is splitted in 33 parts!

1. City of London
2. City of Westminster
3. Kensington and Chelsea
4. Hammersmith and Fulham
5. Wandsworth
6. Lambeth
7. Southwark
8. Tower Hamlets
9. Hackney
10. Islington
11. Camden
12. Brent
13. Ealing
14. Hounslow
15. Richmond
16. Kingston
17. Merton
18. Sutton
19. Croydon
20. Bromley
21. Lewisham
22. Greenwich
23. Bexley
24. Havering
25. Barking and Dagenham
26. Redbridge
27. Newham
28. Waltham Forest
29. Haringey
30. Enfield
31. Barnet
32. Harrow
33. Hillingdon

SIGHTS:

London has many sights like the "Tower Bridge", the "Palace of Westminster"(there you´ll find "Big Ben") and the "Buckingham Palace"!

Tower Bridge

Houses of Parliament (on the right side you see Big Ben)

Buckingham Palace

Sightseeing in London!
10 places you have to see!

Other things:
London is one of the importants cities for finance -, culture- and tradecenters of the world There are many theaters and museen.

Climate:

		Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	Mai	June
Record high °C		7,2	7,6	10,3	13,0	17,0	20,3
Average high °C		2,4	2,5	3,8	5,6	8,7	11,6
Avg. rainy days		14,8	10,8	13,4	12,7	12,5	10,5

Jul	Aug	Sep	Okt	Nov	Dez
22,3	21,9	19,1	15,2	10,4	8,2
13,7	13,4	11,4	8,9	5,1	3,4
10,1	10,9	10,5	11,6	14,0	13,2

Languages, Cultures, Religions and Goverment

London has a diverse range of peoples, cultures and religions, and more than 300 languages are spoken.


The administration of London is formed of two tiers- a city-wide, strategic tier and a local tier.

Barcelona

Hola!

I'll tell you something about Barcelona:

Facts:

• Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain and the capitel of Catalonia
• It is 120 km away from Pyrenees and the Mediterranean Sea, by the borderline of French. There, the people speak Catalan, which is a roman language with french parts.
• The area of Barcelona is 100.4km².
• It's the 11th-most populated municipality in the EU and the sixth-most populated urban area.
• In Barcelona, there are 1.6 million inhabitants, 15,9% of them are foreigners.
• The life expectancy for men is 77 and 84 for women.
• Every year 4.5 million tourists visit Barcelona.
• Barcelona is a global city which is known for it's importance in finance, commerce, media, arts and entertainment.
• Many people come on the Mobile World Congress every year, occupying all the hotels
• The harbor of Barcelona is the biggest in Spain and the Mediterranean Sea.
• Barcelona has seven beaches. They are 4.5 km altogether, along the coastline.

Sights:
Barcelona is a town where you can visit a lot of various different sights. There are various styles by the houses, buildings , museums, garden and the various boroughs.
At the end of the 19th century, Barcelona developed it's own Art Nouveau.
The famous representative was Antoni Gautí. He planed many sights, which you can still visit today:

Casa Milà
(Casa means house in spanish)
The house was built from 1906 to 1910.
Because the house has an irregular front, people called it:"La Pedrera" (quarry)
The house is 26 meters high and has 6 floors.

Sagrada Famíla
This is a roman-catholic basilica.
The building of the church started 1882 but it is still unfinished today.
The house is on the north side of the old town.
The church should be 170 meters high and should
have the highest steeple in the world.
In the year, the buildings works have 22 million in possession.
They spend the rest of the money they don't need.

Monumento a Colón

On the "Plaza de Colón" stands the 60 meter high column. On top of the column stands Columbus, he points in the direction of "the new world" America.
Gaietà Buïgas built the column at 1888, it should reminiscent the return from Columbus, because he was received from the king Fernando and the queen Isabel. You can drive with a lift on the platform and see the harbor and the town.

Torre Agbar
It's a tower, 142 meters high, which is known as one of the two the highest buildings in Spain.
The available land is 39,000m². For the surface, they need 40 glosses and 4,500 windows, tihs is why the tower shimmers in different colours.
The tower is use by office and conference, on 33 floors.

Very recognized is the soccer club:FC Barcelona
The stadium can fit 98,600 people. It's the biggest stadium in Europe. FC Barcelona is the only soccer club, that is still in the first league (Primera División). It is the second most valuable club of the world.
It was founded at November 28, 1899.

The climate
Barcelona has a Mediterranean climate with mild and humid winters and warm dry summers.
The winter months are coldest with temperatures of 10°C in the city.July and August are the hottest months, averaging 24°C. The highest temperature was 38,6°C in the centre.
The rainy season are in spring and autumn and the dry season in winter and summer.




Typical food out of Catalonia
Allioli-->This is garlic,oil and yogurt. It is eaten together with for example: fish or meat
Escalivada--> Grilled and peeled vegetable which is colt and pickled.
Arròs amb conill-->Rice with rabbit. It's similar as Paella
Escudella-->noodel soup
Crema catalana(Crème brûélle)-->Pudding with caramel on the top.
Mel i mató-->This is a soft white cheese out of goats' milk, with honey.

Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyend it!

Jessica

Hi everyone

Here you can write all your jokes (please in English).
If the jokes are word-jokes you can write it in German but otherwise please write in English.
And please not so s***** jokes like: Two men walk in an desert one man say: I want to walk in dem mid too"
please NOT

Madrid

MADRID


Madrid is the Capital of Spain.
Its 667msnm high an 605.770 km2 big.
332463 Peoples live in Madrid ( 2007 )

This is the Kingspalace.
Its called Palacio Real.

There lived the Kings familiy.

That building is called : Las Ventas

Its a Arena for Bullfighting.

Many Spains visit that show every Month.

This is the Plaza Mayor! Its a big Place with 237 balkonys.

its in the middle of madrid.

This is the Temple of Madrid. Its called Templo de Debod.

Its a old egypt temple which was rebuilt in Madrid.

But the most famous thing you all now is the Soccer Team of Madrid.

REAL MADRID:

Emblem of Real Madrid

They play in a league called Primera División and in the Champions League. They have won the Uefa Pokal two times. It is one of the richest Soccer Team of the World and it was founded in 1902.

By Sven Freitag ; 9d

Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the biggest city of the smallest continent, Australia. Also it is the capitol of New South Wales. i In the Urban Centre live 3.64 million people, in the metropolis region live 4.12 million people. The landmark of Sydney is the Opera house that looks like an Oyster. Other More or less famous buildings are Sydney Harbor Bridge, Sydney Tower, Queen Victoria Building, Fort Denison, Cadman's Cottage and Kirribilli House. Sydney is the most know city of Australia and many people think it was the capitol of Australia but the capitol of Australia is Canberra. I was in Sydney many times and I think it is a great town, because there is the biggest natural harbor of the world. And the opera house it is in real much bigger than it looks on the pictures. On the pictures below you see once the opera and on the right picture you see bats in one of the natural parks in Sydney.

Berlin!!!

Hey everyone!
I would tell you something about Berlin, the capital of Germany.
Berlin has got 3.43 million inhabitants with a area of 891,85 km².
The most known signs are the bears of Berlin.

On their red-white flag is also one black bear.
In Berlin are many great signs and museums,

like the Brandenburger Tor and Madame Tussauds.

The television tower is also very great.

By the Brandenburger Tor you can also ride funny bikes for seven persons.

With those bikes you can also make a sightseeing tour around Berlin.
The greatest shopping centers are the KaDeWe and the Lafayette.

They are very large and they have many different shops.

The station is also very big.
There are more than one floor and also many shops where you can go
shopping or eat.

The most known food in Berlin is currywurst and Berliner.
I think Berlin is a very great city.

By Daria.

Ciao a tutti,

This is a text about Rome.

The biggest city in Italy and the capital since 1871 is Rome. It has 2.724.347 inhabitants in the city (1. January 2009) and the area is 1.285,306 km². The city is at the river Tiber. I think the Tiber is very dirty.
The mean annual temperature in Rome is 15,5 °C. In the summer the temperature is about 24 °C and January is the coldest month with 6,9 °C.
Rome was established on the 21. April 753 BC.
There lives many imperators for example: Augustus, Hadrian, Konstantin, Nero and certainly Caesar.
It also named „the Eternal City“, because of the ancient history. The most imperators were at war with Gaul and other Country’s in Europe.
Inside Rome is the smallest state of the world. The area of Vatican state is 0,44km² and there lives only 932 inhabitants. Pontifex Benedict XVI lives there.


My opinion is, that Rome has the most beautiful sights in the world.


Forum Romanum:
The Forum Romanum was the market in the ancient.



















Colosseum:
The Colosseum was a place for the Romans to see battles between Slaves and animals (Tigers; Lions; Bears). There died many Gladiatos.






















Fontana di Trevi:
It’s one of the most popular fountains of the world. It was designed by Nicola Salvi.



















St. Peter's Basilica (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano):
Konstantin thought the apostle Petrus is bury there and so he built the Basilica. Every day 20.000 people visit the Basilica.














These are my four favourite places in Rome.



I hope you enjoyed my text!
Nicole

Mumbai

Hey everyone,

I want to tell you something about Mumbai.
The city with its over 13.9 million inhabitants(only city, no suburbs), is the centre of finance in India. It is the most important seaport in its county and with 437.77 km²(city) also the biggest. It is the 5th biggest city in the whole world.
Till 1995 Mumbai was called Bombay. This is the reason why some old people had never heard ''Mumbai'' before:).
It is a very interesting city because of its turistical attractions, like the Gateway of India, the Elephanta Caves or the Hanging Gardens of Mumbai, which are next to Mumbai's big slums. In the movie ''slumdog millionär'' is shown how poor the people in the big slums are.

This picture shows one of Mumbais' slums.

Thank you for reading this text,
Tobias

Dublin

Hi Folks,
i want to tell you something about Dublin, I must say that I haven't been there yet, but I really want to travel to it. I think it must be really exciting to be there. Dublin is the biggest city and the capital of Ireland. It's irish name is Baile Àtha Cliath. Dublin is just it's english name. On an area of 117,8 km² live 506 211 inhabitants. The city is splittet up by the river Liffey in te poor northside and the richer southside. It is on the east-coast of Ireland. Some of the most important buildings are the Trinity College with its famous library , the Leinster House, the Four Courts and the Saint Patricks Cathedral. And there are also some of really famous people from Dublin: Cecelia Ahern, Bono (U2), Enya, Bob Geldof and Colin Farrell. Those were some facts, take them and go there =)

Trinity College library:


Leinster House:


Four Courts:


Saint Patricks Cathedral:

Bangkok

Hey guys :)

Bangkok is the capital of Thailand since 1782. It´s called "city of angel". Bangkok is a very busy city with approx. 7 000 000 inhabitants. It´s very hot there, the temperature is between 25°C and 35°C in the year. The city has many sights, for example more than 400 Wats (buddism temple) or the big palast, it´s the oldest temple of Bangkok. Bangkok has many environmental problems. They have a big problem with air pollution and water supply. But all in all Bangkok is a very fascinating and lovely city with interesting buildings.

Thank you for reading.
Julia & Christina

Las Vegas

Hey everyone.

I would tell you gladly something about Las Vegas.
Las Vegas is a very populous city in Nevada and a renowned resort for more than 35 million tourists yearly. Because of their large number of casinos, Las Vegas became very famous. Their number of inhabitants on 340 km² amounts to 558,000, the Agglomeration spreads meanwhile on over 1200 km² and has 2 million inhabitant. The name comes from the Spanish and means „the Auen“ or „the meadows “. Beside the casinos the shows are the public character of the city. Famous musicians and artist from Las Vegas are Elvis Presley, Sammy Davis Jr, Dean Martin, Celine Dion, Elton John and still more. The city is famous also for its large number of wedding chapels, because Nevada has very uncomplicated marriage ceremony (and divorce) laws.
The incomes by tourists amounted to 2004 about 33.7 billion US Dollar. The incomes of the casinos amount to about 4.5 billion US Dollar in the year. 150,000 bed standing in Las Vegas for tourists to the order.


by Naira

Los Angeles

Hello everyone!

This is an article about the big city Los Angeles. Have fun!

Los Angeles is the largest city of California and the second largest
city of the USA. It lays on the west coast of California at the Pacific
Ocean. Los Angeles can divide in 15 different areas like Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles, South Los Angeles or Wilshire. The population is 3.8 million and the city is 498.3 square miles (1,290.6 square kilometres) large and it's also know as L.A. or as the City of Angels.

When the Spanish governor Felipe de Neve founded L.A. in 1781
it was called "El Pueblo de Noestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles
del Rio de Porciuncula"(the village of our lady,the queen of angels
of the river of porziuncola).At this time their live only 44 people.
Los Angeles is a world center of business,international trade,
entertainment, culture, media, fashion, science, technology e.t.c.
It has 25 partnertowns.For the Public transportation their are bus lines, the subway and the light rail line. The main airport of Los Angeles is the Los Angeles International Airport. It's the fifth busiest commercial airport of the world and the third busiest in the United States. 61 million passengers and 2 million tons of cargo were transportet in 2006. Los Angeles has altogether 8 airports. To the important landmarks in Los Angeles belongs for example Chinatown, Little Tokyo, the Walt Disney Concert Hall... (altogether 19 landmarks).


Walt Disney Concert Hall

Hollywood, which means in German 'Stechpalmenwald', is a district of Los Angeles and a center of movie stars and movie studios. The name Hollywood was coined by H.J.Whitley, the father of Hollywood, in 1886. By 1900 the region had only a post office, a newspaper, a hotel, two markets and only 500 inhabitents. Since 1900 it belongs to Los Angeles. The first movie, which was filmed there was 'A Daring Hold-Up in Southern California'. The first studio in Hollywood was established by New Jersey-based Centaur Co. By 1920 Hollywood had become world famous as the center of the United States film industry. Today the biggest film studios are the Universal studio and Warner Bros. Every year the Academy Awards were held in late March/early April since 2004. The Oscar is held in the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue since 2002. There are 54 film festivels every year, which translates into more than one every week.



Also famous is the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which was created in 1958 as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry. The first star on the Walk is Joanne Woodward. Her star was set in place on February 9,1960. Today there are over 2000 stars on the Walk.

Thank you for reading
Kerstin and Nicole

Guangzhou

Hi everybody!


I write about Guangzhou, one of the biggest metropolis of China. At first some facts about this town:
Of course this city belongs to China. It has 10.045.800 inhabitants and it's the capital of the province Guangdong and also an important town of trade and industry. The urban area is 3843,4 squarekilometers. The Chinese also call it "town of caprines", because of the legends saying that five spiked winged gods riding on caprines came from the South Seas after a bad harvest 900 years ago. They blessed the city not to relive a dearth again. Then the gods left without the caprines which turned into stone. Therefore in 19 59 they built the town's landmark, a statue of five caprines, you can still visit in Yuexiu-Park.

Two times in a year the biggest trade show of China takes place in Guangzhou. 2005 they began to build the world's highest television tower(610m).
Because of laying on the Perl River,it has a monsoon-clime. And the mean annual temperature is 22C. There they speak Cantonese, a dialect of China, and the Chinese often says that the Cantonese eat all that can swims, flys and has 4 legs, of course they don't eat something like a car or a plain. So the manifold cantonese cuisine can also pamper europeans. But rarely, you meet dogs and snakes on the cantonese menu. Some people detest seing pictures of dogs or turtles on the plate and they execrate those people who eats those animals. And what's about the breed of pigs or cows? They're also animals. First of all, this kind of dishes have been got rarer and rarer. But I think each culture has its own cuisine.

At least, you can walk along the Perl River to enjoy the romantic scene, when the night is coming and the lights are gleaming - a really beautiful picture!

Now I'tell you some sights of this town:

1. Yuexiu park - the biggest in the city





2. Huaisheng mosque founded by the first muslim missionary





3. Guangxiao temple - the oldest in town





4. The Temple of the ancestors of the family Chen where the people in the Qing-dynasty whose name was Chen had to sacrifice their ancestors

Xuan Hy

Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida (USA)

Hey guys,I'll write about the beautiful city Miami.

It's in the south-east of america and it is the 7th largest USA. Miami is also called the "Magic City" because since it was founded by 300 people in 1896, now there live 2.2 million people. In the part of Miami "Little Havana" live 1 million Exilecubans. They came to miami in the 1960's.

Miami is 146.1 km² large and the Miami Beach was connected with miami by a bridge in 1913. The Overseas Highway, which is the Highway 1, streches from Miami over 37 coral islands to Key West and is sometimes called the highway that goes to sea, because Key West is the southernmost point of the american continent.

Miami is visited by 12 million people every year. They come because of the many attractions in miami.

Miami Art Deco Historic District

In the early 1900's there was a revolution of architecture. This was the beginning of the Miami classic style of architecture. The Art Deco District lies in the south of Miami beach. There you can see many buildings constructed by this typ of architecture. This is a fun and interresting place that begs to be explored (: You also can find the beautiful style on many houses all over the world.

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

This is a place full with many plants, palms, cycades and other rare and endangered species.

You can go there on 16.000 square foot with 83 acres. You can take a tram ride or a walking tour. The Garden is one of the most beautifulest attractions in Miami.

Many more attractions and museums in Miami are famous and very interresting for all of it's visiters. The beautiful beaches and the nice parts and the centre of miami make this city inimitable. The temperature also is very enjoyable the whole year. So it is a city for holidays as well as history.

Hope you like my text about the "Magic City" Miami.

Yannic :)

unreal Moscow

by Alex

Moscow wasn’t built in a day.

push to hear music!---->

If we would like to talk about Russia we should start talking about Moscow, because it’s the heart of the country. It’s a well-known fact that Moscow is the capital of Russia and it’s one of the biggest and the most beautiful cities in the world.
It stands on the bank of the Moskva River. About 10 million people live in the city.

And if we talk about Moscow we should mention about the pearl of the city – Red Square. It’s the place where the leader of the Soviet Union – Lenin was buried. Moreover many parades, meetings, demonstrations take place here.
On this Square you can see the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed, monuments to Minin und Pozhasky and the magnificent building of the History Museum.

One of the most amazing places in Moscow is the Kremlin. It consists of three wonderful cathedrals, the bell tower of Ivan the Great, palaces, fortress walls and 20 towers. The clock that strikes every quarter of an hour is on the Spassky Tower.
The Kremlin attracts the tourists’ attention with its golden domes, and its majestic beauty.
Near the Kremlin Wall there is the Alexander Garden. Here you can see the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. There are always a lot of flowers at the foot of the monument, especially on Victory Day.

Moscow is a scientific and cultural centre. It has a lot of institutes, universities, libraries, colleges and secondary schools. A well-known Moscow University attracts young people from all parts of Russia and abroad.

The capital is famous for its varied cultural life. There are a lot of cinemas, museums, concert halls, more than 40 drama and musical theaters including the Bolshoi Theater with its world famous ballet and opera.

The citizens of Moscow leads an active night life, they visit lots of clubs, discos and after-parties.
The citizens of the capital are proud of their museums, for example the Tretyakov Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts and others. At the Tretyakov Gallery you can see a lot of remarkable paintings by great Russian artists: Repin, Levitan, Shishkin and many others.

So Moscow is the city, which is worth seeing. I’m sure, if you visit Moscow it will make a great impression on you!