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Theatre Square, South Bank, London© www.visitlondon.com
Theatre Square, South Bank, London
If you look across the River Thames from Theatre Square, outside the National Theatre, you will see Cleopatra's Needle. This was given to Britain in 1819 by Egypt's Turkish overlords, and was floated to London in 1878 from Alexandria.
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