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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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