Top 10 Best Day Trips from London for Culture and Scenery
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Rivaling Oxford in both history and beauty, Cambridge is another perfect day trip destination. Its picturesque setting, with the River Cam running through the city, makes it especially scenic.
Punting tours here are a must, gliding past grand university buildings like King’s College Chapel, famous for its soaring Gothic architecture. Cambridge combines intellectual heritage with peaceful green spaces, offering a relaxed escape from London’s hustle.
Painting is an ancient medium and even with the introduction of photography, film and digital technology, it still has remained a persistent mode of expression. So many paintings have been limned over dozens of millennia that only a relatively small percentage of them could be construed as "timeless classics" that have become familiar to the public—and not coincidentally produced by some of the most famous artists of all time. We, of course, have our opinion of what makes the grade and we present them here in our list of the best paintings of all time.
