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In the photo: King's College Chapel
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The city
Cambridge is the university town of eastern England, on the banks of the River Cam, less than an hour by train from London. The small, flat centre brings together King's College Chapel, Trinity College, St John's with the Bridge of Sighs, the Backs gardens, punt rides, the Fitzwilliam Museum and the daily market in the central square.
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The local experience
The Gothic chapel of King's College, built between 1446 and 1515, with the largest stone fan vault in the world, 16th‑century stained glass windows and Rubens' Adoration of the Magi on the altar.
The largest college in Cambridge, founded by Henry VIII in 1546, with the Great Court, Christopher Wren's Wren Library and the apple tree associated with Isaac Newton at the entrance.
The college founded in 1511 by the mother of Henry VII, with a Tudor gate, a sequence of courts down to the river and the neogothic Ponte dos Suspiros, dating from 1831, over the Cam.
The art and antiquities museum of the Universidade de Cambridge, in a neoclassical building from 1848, with Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities and paintings by Titian, Rubens, Monet and Picasso. Admission to the permanent collection is usually free; check in advance.
The lawns and gardens behind the colleges on the banks of the rio Cam, from Queens' to St John's, seen from a punt or on foot, with the Ponte Matemática, the Clare Bridge and the capela do King's in the background.
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