Big Ben is the name given to the clock tower at the northern end of London

Big Ben is the name given to the clock tower at the northern end of London, is the clock tower is one of the most important tourist attractions in London.It changed its name to Elizabeth Tower, having renamed in 2012 to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II.

 The tower holds the largest clock knock on a four aspects , is the Big Ben. Big Ben is the famous clock in the City of London, which is the most important device for measuring time in the world, and is one of the most important attractions that tourists keen to visit in Britain.

Big Ben began its work on the third of June 1856 AD, was named after Benjamin Hall - the British Minister of Works at that time still and who was nicknamed Big Ben, a supervised the project and design of its tower clock. Big Ben weighs about 12 tons and a half, which is installed in the Tower of London, and is one of the most important London City landmarks and Britain, where the bell weighs about thirteen tons, Since 1924 Big Ben  began to announce the time on Radio «BBC» daily. Many people around the world are accustomed to hear the clock ticking before BBC news bulletins.

Big Ben is one of the most accurate watches. And although the German air raids shattered aspects of the tower and dozens of  passages during World War II, it continued in the Declaration of ticking time during the second half of Greenwich timing as indicated by measurements conducted by the Greenwich Observatory.

It was the only time during the war that the usual time its activity not to be, when a swarm of  starlings birds , landed on the fork hours and stopped the clock. Since then, and despite the progress in age, but The clock did not suffer from big problems.

There in Buenos Aires exact copy of Big Ben clock tower total length of 45 meters. The British government has donated to Argentina in 1910 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the independence of that nation. The Argentines renew this clock in 1999, in honor of a visit by Britain's Prince Charles as a sign of healing the rift between Argentina and the United Kingdom after the end of the Falklands War between the two countries in 1982.

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