Canary Wharf - this, of course, the business district. But this business district, where you want to come again and again - to roam the green streets, admire the marvelous panorama of the waterfront in London, listening to the lapping of the water in the old harbor.

Lying Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, east of the City. Your name he got from the dock, which were taken from the Canary Islands by sea fruit. Located around the port of London, one of the largest in the world. But in the second half of the XX century, it was the era of container ships, the port it is not adapted to the seventies and died. Docklands - in memory of the port of call this dirty and depressed areas.

The idea of ​​its reconstruction and transformation into an office block occurred banker Michael von Klemm. An idea supported by the government of Margaret Thatcher. Construction began in 1988, but in the early nineties there was a crisis in the property market, the project collapsed. However, in the middle of the decade, work resumed. The decisive impetus they gave expansion Skytrain Docklands, Canary Wharf has made available - from that moment the area was becoming a real competitor City.

Canary Wharf from a distance looks like about Paris La Defense - towering over London celestial line array of glittering skyscrapers. The local 235-meter tower, "Ouane Kenada Square" for a long time was the tallest building in Britain until it was overtaken London as "splinter." A dozen high-rises, where the offices of major corporations to form a compact mass.

District amazes amazing combination of skyscrapers, old houses, lush greenery and canals with bridges. The designers have given carte blanche to fit into existing neighborhoods was not necessary, but skillfully used in the design of the area and the old harbor, and two harbor cranes and buildings of the old docks. It was very beautifully and organically.

Come here mainly to subway trains easy - they are automated and do not have drivers. On the Thames has a pier where river buses stick.

The Canary Wharf is something to see: in the red-brick former warehouse is located Museum of London Docklands, in the harbor standing on the moors old barges and ships converted into floating restaurants along the quays stretch outdoor cafes, bars and shops. In this sparkling, lick up the sterile area of ​​cleanliness nothing but the museum and the names, it reminds of his past.