1. María Germade Malvido

2. Hyde Park is one of the biggest park in London centre,
England and one of the Royal Parks of London,
famous because of its Speakers´ Corner.
Lake Serpentine divides Hyde Park in two halves.
The park is next two Kensington Gardens; although
people think that Kensington Gardens belongs to Hyde
Park, the gardens have been considered a different
Park since 1728, when Queen Caroline divided the
place into two different parks.
Hyde Park is 350 acres long and Kensington Gardens
are 275 acres long, that means that the total area is 675
acres; that is a place bigger than Monaco (485 acres).

4. During the day, both parks seem just one, but at night
time Kensington Gardens are closed and Hyde Park is
still open until midnight.
The great Exhibition of 1851 took place in the park.
This was the reason why the Crystal Palace designed
by Joseph Paxton was built.
There have also been many demonstrations in Hyde
Park, organised by almost any kind of political party or
organization.
On the 20th July 1982 two bombs attacks took place in
Hyde Park and Regents Park. The attacks were related
to a group that belongs to the IRA and there were eight
victims from the Household Cavalry and the Royal
Green Jackets. Seven horses were also killed.

6. Henry VIII bought Hyde mansion to the members
of Westminster Abbey (it had belonged to them
from the Normand time).
The mansion was closed as a deer park and it was
used for hunting purposes. It was a private
hunting field until Jacob I let some people in with
a gamekeeper responsible for them.
Carlos I created the Ring (on north of the
Serpentine river) and in 1637 opened it to public
in general.

7. Frozen River

8. In 1689, when Guillermo III moved his bedrooms to
Nottingham House in the small town of Kensington ,
in the distant part of Hyde park and he renamed it as
“Kensington Palace”, sketched a path on south side
and led it to St. James Palace. This route was known as
route du roi, but this name became corrupted and now
it is known as Rotten Row, which still exist s today as a
wide gravel road for carriages leading straight from
west (Hyde Park Corner) to south limit.

9. Map of Hyde Park

10. The first design of a coherent landscape was realized
by Charles Bridgeman for the Queen Caroline under
the supervision of Charles Wither, General Supervisor
of Woods and Forests. It was completed in 1733 with a
cost of 20.000 £.
Bridgeman's water body called The Serpentine was
formed thanks to damming the small Westbourne that
flowed through the park, but it was not really in the
“line of beauty” described by William Hogarth, it was
simply an irregular and modest curve. The 2nd
Viscount of Weymouth was made Hyde Park Keeper in
1739 and short after he began to dig the Serpentine
lakes in Longleat.
The Serpentine is divided by Long Water's bridge,
designed by George Rennie (1826).

12. One of the most important events that took place
in the park was the Great Exhibition of 1851. The
Crystal Palace was constructed in the south side
of the park. Most of the public did not want the
building to be kept in the park after the closing
of that exhibition, and the architect, Joseph
Paxton, collected funds and bought it. Later he
made it move to Sydenham Hill, in south
London.

14. The Great Entry to the park, at Hyde Park Corner next
to Apsley House, was constructed from Decimus
Burton's designs in 1824-25 and it is described this
way: “It consists on a screen of beautiful fluted ionic
columns with three carriages entrance archways, two
foot entrances, a lodge, etc.” The extension of the
whole frontage is closely 107 feet (33 m). The central
entry has a firm projection: the planking is supported
by four columns, and the capitals of the outside
columns of each side of the entry are formed in
angular direction, to exhibit two complete faces. All
these income are finished by a blockade, the sides of
the central entry are decorated by a beautiful
frieze, representing a naval and military triumphal
procession. This frieze was designed by Mr.
Henning, Jr., the son of Mr. Henning that was well-
known for his models of Elgin's marbles.

16. The gates were manufactured by Messrs. Bramah.
They are of iron, bronze, and fixed or hung to the piers
by rings of gun-metal. The design consists of a
beautiful arrangement of the Greek honeysuckle
ornament; the parts are definite well designed and the
details of the leaves are done in the most extraordinary
manners.
A rose garden, designed by Colvin & Moggridge, was
added in 1994.

18. Sites of interest in the park include Speakers '
Corner (located in the northeast corner near
Marble Arch), close to the former site of Tyburn's
gallows, and Rotten Row, which is the north
boundary of the site of the Crystal Palace. On the
south of lake Serpentine there is the Diana,
Princess of Wales, Memorial, an oval ring stone
fountain inaugurated on July 6, 2004. To the east of
the Serpentine, just beyond the dam, it is the
Holocaust Memorial.

20. A magnificent botanical curiosity is “Weeping
Beech”, Fagus sylvatica pendula, cherished as “the
tree upside-down”.
Opposite Hyde Park Corner is one of the biggest
hotels of London, The Lanesborough, which offers
its better suite for 8,000£ a night.

23. The park of Santiago, Saint James, Sainte Jacob or St.
James´s Park is a extent of 23 hectare in the zone of
Westminster, in the centre of London. It is the oldest
of the Royal Parks of the city. It is situated in the
extreme south of the zone of St. James´s, which was
named in honour of a leprous hospital devoted to
Santiago the Minor.

24. St. James´s Park is surrounded by Buckingham Palace
on the west, The mall (London) and St. James´s
Palace on the north, Horse Guards on the east and
Bridcage walk on the south. the park has a small lake,
the St. James-Park´s lake, with two island, Duck Island
and West Island. A bridge that crosses the lake offers a
wonderful view of the west side of Buckingham
Palace framed by trees and springs, and a fantastic
view of the principal building of the Foreign and
Common Wealth office, on the east.

26. The park is the most Eastern of the chain of London
parks that also includes, towards the west, Green
Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Garden´s. The closest
entry to the underground are the St. James´s Park,
Victoria Station and Westminster.

27. In 1532, Henry VIII bought the zone from the
marsh, often flooded by the Tyburn stream, to the Eton
School. This zone was limited on West by York
Palace, recently bought by Henry to the Cardinal
Wolsey, acquired to transform York Palace in an
appropriate residence for the king. When Jacob I
became king in 1603, he made drain the park and
prepare landscape gardens, and he put in it several
kinds of exotic animals, among which there were
camels, crocodiles and elephants, and an aviary
prepare to hold exotic birds.

29. During the King’s exile in French during the
Commonwealth of British, Charles II, the young king
was very impressed by the elaborated gardens of the
royal French palaces, and after his return from France
he ordered to sketch the park to give it a more formal
air. This work was probably asked to the French
landscaper André Mollet. These schemes include the
creation of a canal of 775 by 38 metres. Charles II
opened the park to the public, and used it
to entertain guests and lovers, as Nell Gwyn.
During XVIII century it saw many
changes, including the claim of part of the
channel by Horse Guards Parade and in 1761 the Royal
Family acquired
Buckingham House (now Buckingham Palace).

30. Newcastle’s
St James
Park

31. Subsequent renovations made ​between 1826 and
1827,commissioned by the Regent Prince (later George
IV) and supervised by landscape gardener and
architect John Nash, showed how the channel
was transformed into a
lake, and formal avenues became
more romantic walks .
At the same time, Buckingham House was expanded
to create the present palace and Marble Arch was
built as the entrance, while The Mall became
a ceremonial grand tour, opened to the public 60
years later, in 1887, the Arch was moved
to its current location at the intersection
of Oxford Street and Park Lane in 1851 and was
replaced by the Victoria Memorial between 1906 and
1924.

32. In early July 2007 the Tour de
France started in London.
The first day was the
Prologue, which took in a
tour round the Royal Parks in
London before the tour
proper set off through Kent
to the English Channel on
the following day.
These delightful topiary
cyclists were commissioned
by Mark Wasilewski, Park
Manager of St James Park, to
commemorate the occasion.

34. Regent`s park is one of the London Royal Parks. It is
located in the north zone of the city, a part in
Westminster city another part in Camden.

37. Apart from two union paths between these, the park
is reserved for pedestrians. Side south, east and most
part of west are surrounded by elegant rows of white
terraced houses designed by John Nash. On north´s
limit it is Regent´s Canal, which connects Grand
Unicorn Canal to London Docks, the ancient London
harbour

39. The park, of 2km square, is mainly formed by open
green areas in which there are a lot of different
facilities for free time activities and gardens, a lake for
water birds, an area for boats, sports fields and
children´s playground on the North-East limit of the
park there is the London Zoo, the oldest zoo park of
the world.

40. Regent´s Park also has flower and botanical gardens,
among which Queen Mary´s Garden in the Inner
Circle (where it is also the Open Air Theatre) is the
most important.

41. In Regent´s Park we can also
find the London Central
Mosque, known as Regent´s
Park Mosque, Winfield
House, official residence of
the United States
ambassador in the United
Kingdom, and the Regent´s
College, in which several
institutions of higher
education are located.
Central Mosque