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There is much to see and do in Cambridge, a beautiful old city famous for its University Colleges, and especially for Kings College and Kings College Chapel
Henry VI laid the foundation stone of Kings College Chapel in 1446. The Chapel was planned on a Cathedral scale. The building work continued through the rein of Henry, and much was done under Richard III, with the Tudor kings Henry VII and Henry VIII completing the work. The Chapel is one of Europe’s finest late medieval buildings, and truly ‘a work of kings’.
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Other ancient Cambridge University Colleges include Trinity College, Jesus College, and the oldest, Peterhouse which was founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely.
You can take tours of the Colleges, as well as of the fifteenth century University Church, Great St Mary’s. In the city centre next to the market square, this has a high tower from which you get panoramic views across Cambridge.
The Senate House is Palladian and built by James Gibbs in 1722. |
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The Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum has world-class collections of art and antiquities with many masterpieces of painting and sculpture.
The many green spaces include The Backs, an area of lawns and pasture beside the River Cam. You can go boating and punting on the River Cam.
Cambridge Botanic Garden has tropical glasshouses, a lake, woodland walks, a specialist winter garden, and thousands of different plants.
There is an excellent choice of hotels, guest houses and self-catering accommodation in Cambridge and London is easy to visit by road or rail. |
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