Londres - Hyde Park - Masfotografias.com

Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.

The park is divided in two by the Serpentine Lake. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens, which is widely assumed to be part of Hyde Park, but is technically separate. Hyde Park is 350 acres (1.4 km²) and Kensington Gardens is 275 acres (1.1 km²) giving an overall area of 625 acres (2.5 km²).

The park was the site of The Great Exhibition of 1851, for which the Crystal Palace was designed by Joseph Paxton.

The park has become a traditional location for mass demonstrations. The Chartists, the Suffragettes and the Stop The War Coalition have all held protests in the park.

On 20 July 1982 in the Hyde Park and Regents Park bombings, two bombs linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army caused the death of eight members of the Household Cavalry and the Royal Green Jackets and seven horses.

In 1536 Henry VIII acquired the manor of Hyde from the canons of Westminster Abbey, who had held it since before the Norman Conquest;[1] it was enclosed as a deer park and used for hunts. It remained a private hunting ground until James I permitted limited access to gentlefolk, appointing a ranger to take charge. Charles I created the Ring (north of the present Serpentine boathouses) and in 1637 he opened the park to the general public.

In 1689, when William III moved his habitation to Nottingham House in the village of Kensington on the far side of Hyde Park, and renamed it Kensington Palace, he had a drive laid out across its south edge, leading to St. James's Palace.; this Route du Roi came to be corrupted to Rotten Row, which still exists as a wide straight gravelled carriage track leading west from Hyde Park Corner across the south boundary of Hyde Park. Public transportation that was entering London from the west paralleled the King's private road along Kensington Gore, just outside the Park.

The first coherent landscaping was undertaken by Charles Bridgeman for Queen Caroline;[2] under the supervision of Charles Withers, Surveyor-General of Woods and Forest, who took some credit for it, it was completed in 1733 at a cost to the public purse of ₤20,000. Bridgeman's piece of water called The Serpentine, formed by damming the little Westbourne that flowed through the Park was not truly in the serpentine "line of beauty" that William Hogarth descibed, but merely irregular on a modest curve. The 2nd Viscount Weymouth was made Ranger of Hyde Park in 1739 and shortly began digging the serpentine lakes at Longleat.[3] The Serpentine is divided from the Long Water by a bridge designed by George Rennie (1826).

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[elsteviolee]

Me and the wife visited this park. Well I'll tell you we were kinda disappointed. No offence but it was pretty run down and this video gives a false idea of the landscaping quality. 

[WeeeWriter]

Hyde  Park looks so beautiful. I read so many stories of aristocrats in the old days, taking their daily drive with horse and carriage through Hyde Park to be seen and to see. It was apparently quite a popular thing to do with the "ton".

[3o06]

what song is this? sounds like radiohead's

[1234567loading]

youtubecom /watch?v=slt9PQHEllk THX

[purityeyes]

I thought it's so beautiful place for playing with friends.. I really missed there...

[nutier]

Beautiful video where nature is still alive .Thank you for sharing .

nutier