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Included Highlights :
Professional Blue Badge Guide, Entry to Windsor Castle,
entry to Salisbury Cathedral, entry to the ancient
monoliths of Stonehenge
Windsor
Castle - This full day tour begins with a visit
to Windsor Castle built high above the River Thames,
it has been home to the Royal Family for 900 years,
and is the largest and oldest occupied Castle in the
world. You will see the magnificent State Apartments,
still used today for State occasions and royal receptions.
You will also see St George’s Chapel, burial
place of many kings and queens, and the home of our
senior order of chivalry, The Order of the Garter.
If time permits, or if you prefer, you could visit
Queen Mary’s Dolls House.
Salisbury, Old Sarum,
was the site of the original castle, church and settlement.
The story goes that the Bishop shot an arrow, the
place where it landed was where the new cathedral
was to be built and the town of Salisbury grew up
around the cathedral. In Salisbury you will visit
one of England’s finest cathedrals, started
in 1220, remarkably it took 38 years to build and
was completed by 1258 with the Spire, the tallest
in England (123m/404ft) added a generation later.
Its interior is breathtaking, you will also see the
oldest working clock in Europe. In the Chapter House,
you will see one of the few surviving copies of the
Magna Carta, written in a beautiful script and sealed
by King John in 1215. Salisbury Cathedral has always
been a setting for great occasions and huge colourful
processions, it is a majestic and awe-inspiring building,
as it has been for over 775 years.
Mysterious Stonehenge
now awaits, situated on the historic Salisbury Plain.
It is the most important prehistoric site in England
and is unique throughout the whole world. Now a ‘World
Heritage Site’ and surrounded by other ancient
burial sites, it encompasses some 5000 years of history.
You will have the opportunity
to walk around the huge stones that form the circle
and form your own opinion about the people who once
lived here and why they decided to build this huge
monument.
* At certain times
during the winter, there may not be a Changing of
the Guard.
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