What can be seen from the London Eye? Climbing the London Eye big wheel you’ll see up to 40 kilometers around, when the weather is good. So, it can be said that most of the important things in the city of London are within your reach including the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Shard, the River Thames, Buckingham Palace, The Tower Bridge and more.
This giant ferris wheel contains 32 oval, metal, transparent and air-conditioned capsules, each weighing 10 tons. Each capsule can carry up to 25 people. There are seating for visitors inside the capsule, but you can also walk around if you wish. The wheel rotates at a speed of 26 centimeters (10 inches) per second, thus it takes half an hour to complete a rotation.
For a visitor, not boarding the London Eye means that his London trip remains incomplete. It’s currently one of the most important and interesting modern architectures in the city. That’s why over 4 million tourists visit the London Eye every year.
An architect couple, David Marks and Julia Barfield, were the original designers for the London Eye Ferris Wheel. It was inaugurated in 2000, to mark the beginning of the new millennium in the world.
The designers intended to symbolize the constant flow of time by this wheel. As if it is a time wheel. They wished to celebrate the moment London entered the new millennium by turning this wheel.
Construction of the London Eye began in late 1998, on the River Thames in the Westminster area of central London. The wheel was brought to the South Bank floating over the River Thames in October 1999, and was first opened to the public in March 2000.
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