York is one of Europe’s historic cities
It began as an important roman city. In medieval times a stone wall was built around it, and wall is still there today. There is the river Omse near Lendal bridge. And from here you can walk around the city on the wall, it takes about two hours. In the south wall is Micklegate bar, where kings and queens entered the city. There is also Monk bar and Booth bar. Inside the city there is a cathedral. It was begun in 1220 and finished two centuries later. If you compare this English cathedral with a catholic cathedral, you will see that they are different. Cathedral in Protestant England don’t have colorful paintings on the wall, the color is in the windows. In the center of window of this cathedral is white rose – the symbol of York. There are also different interesting museums in York. One of them is the National Railway Museum.
There are a lot of trains in it, for example the first public train in the world, built in 1825 and the fastest steam train in the world are here..
OXFORD. Oxford is one of oldest and most famous cities in the world. it is famous for it’s university, the Oxford university.
It also called a city of students, because over 12000 students are living and studding here in thirty five colleges. Oxford is a place of young people and old traditions, for example teachers are called dons and still wear black grows. Student here are taught one-to-one in the Socratic tradition. At the libraries you can still see notices written in Latin – the ancient language of scholars. Students here are surrounded by old stone building. One of them is Hertford
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