Windsor Castle and Stonehenge

My family and I traveled to Windsor Castle, which is where the queen resides most weekends. She was actually there while we were there, but we didn't see her. It was a neat castle with a ton of history (as most things are in Europe, of course). King Henry VIII is buried there in the St. George's chapel, and the gardens are beautiful.

Then we went to Salisbury, which is the town near Stonehenge. We went to the Salisbury Cathedral, which was a beautiful, huge Cathedral. It has the highest spire in England. It also holds one of the only 4 remaining versions of the Magna Carta, and it's the best version that's still readable (if you can read Latin, that is). We walked around the town a little, which is really cute.

Then we took a bus out to Stonehenge. The land around Stonehenge is a national park, so there's nothing really around it. There were many burial mounds where they have excavated many objects that tell them about the area. There also are large trenches dug for miles around Stonehenge, which they believe date back earlier than the stone formations. The trenches could have been paths which the people walked on to get from the River Avon to Stonehenge. They don't really know what Stonehenge was used for, but there are many beliefs that it was a holy place of some sort, or a space to bury their loved ones.

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