The Victoria embankment gardens are located almost in its entirety between Blackfriars bridge and Westminster. The promenade was built in 1865-70, to ensure the London sewers (after the "great stink" of 1858), but the construction was provided and communal gardens.

They absolutely do not feel that just around the corner – a bustling thoroughfare. The main garden, designed by landscape designer Alexander Mackenzie in 1870, closed from the promenade sycamore trees and shrubs. Inside quietness and beauty, blooming clematis, azaleas, tulips, irises, wallflower, climbing roses, there is a small pond with water lilies and fish. You can have a picnic and you can sit in the cafe. On the summer stage at lunchtime free concerts are held.

The garden abounds with monuments. Moreover, there are statues of philanthropist Robert Raksa (it is believed that he opened in 1780 the first Sunday school), poet Robert burns, economist and statesman Henry fosetta (25 years old he became blind from an accident, but became a Professor, fought for voting rights for women and as a member of Parliament reorganized the English mail).

We should also mention the monument of the Imperial camel corps who fought in the First world war in the Sinai and Palestine: a soldier with a rifle on one hump camel. Attracts the attention of a memorial to the legendary composer sir Arthur Sullivan. Modest bust stands on a pedestal of desperation, and embracing the Muse of music, in her grief she does not notice that her clothes fall off and already bared Breasts. The monument was opened in 1903, and critics called it the most erotic in London.

The visitor must admire gates and the York Watergate, the rest of the mansion of George Villiers, Duke of Bekingema. Once they went into the water, but during the construction of the Thames embankment narrowed, and now the gates are just decoration.

Among Victoria embankment gardens are a particularly mysterious and romantic – "inner temple" near Blackfriars bridge. The garden is already seven hundred years belongs to the Guild of lawyers. Shakespeare in the first part of the play "Henry VI" described how here began the war of the roses: the supporters of the Plantagenet and Lancastrian chose roses of different colors. The scene is implausible, but effective.

Now in the "inner temple" roses bloom too, but all is peaceful, quiet and very beautiful: the flower beds are arranged so that flowering is not interrupted from early spring to late autumn. Tulips and forget-me-nots are replaced by poppies, geraniums, peonies, dahlias, asters. In the garden nest of Robins, thrushes, titmice, flying the Sparrowhawk, who lives in the tower "Oxo". To a pond frequented by herons, but leaving frustrated is to enjoy living there carp they interfere with protective grille.