TOWER OF LONDON, Tour

Your tour of the Tower of London continues with the Bloody Tower, so called in memory of Edward IV's children, who were imprisoned and killed there. From there you'll continue on to the Inner Ward, the large internal courtyard. Nearby in the mighty Wakefield Tower, built in the 1200s, you can visit an exhibition of torture instruments that recalls the Tower's sinister fame.

The courtyard surrounds the White Tower, which as I mentioned consists of four square, slender, corner towers covered with small domes and with sturdy buttresses along its walls, which at their base are as wide as twelve meters.

Inside on the second floor, you can visit the precious St John's Chapel that has been preserved as it was when it was built around 1080, at the time of William the Conqueror. Even though it is small, it has a three-nave structure with cylindrical pillars, and even has a corridor that goes around the main altar. There's a remarkable collection of sixteenth-century British armour on the third floor....