The National Gallery is a world-famous art museum. It is located in London in Trafalgar Square. The National Gallery is situated right behind Nelson’s Column. This majestic domed building with massive columns is easy to notice.The National Gallery houses a vast number of works by famous painters who lived during XIII – beginning of XX centuries. Initially the gallery was located in a different place. Soon the decision about moving it to a separate building was taken.

The entrance to the gallery is free. This gives an opportunity to a lot of people to get to know about the development of different schools of painting, painters and painting techniques in different periods of time.

The National Gallery attracts not only tourists from all over the world but also students and pupils living in London. There are a lot of events which take place in the gallery both free and chargeable. Anyone who is interested can attend weekly guided tours around the gallery. Nowadays there are about 2300 canvasses in the National Gallery. Among them there is The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci, Self Portrait at the age of 34 by Rembrandt, Sunflowers by Vincent van Gogh and many others.

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