The United Kingdom is consisted of England, Scotland and Wales in the island of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, in the island of Ireland. It is one of the first world powers, so much to political as economic level. Its past of overseas territories has produced a wide range of cultures in United Kingdom that are reflected above all in its capital and other big cities.

The country has a lot of monuments that testify its wide history. The most ancient of them date back to Neolithic era, as Stonehenge, besides former fortifications and Roman villas, a great number of cathedrals and medieval villages and even the most recent projects of the industrial revolution. Its broad colonial past facilitated the plundering of great value pieces of practically all the civilizations, fact that is reflected in the wealth and abundance of the museums.

In spite of being separated only by few kilometres of sea, it presents cultural characteristics very different from the rest of European nations. The little enthusiasm of their inhabitants to belonging to the European Union has its more evident consequence in the not introduction of the Euro(€). Nowadays, the politician and British society face on the attitude that the country must assume respect to the EU. The acceptance of the future European constitution and the Euro are the most visible aspects.

Even more, though nowadays it is debated about the European Union, many citizens have still problems with the same concept of United Kingdom. The thorniest point of the national identity is Northern Ireland, with their very known problems. And, in the same Great Britain, Scotland and Wales, have always had a strong national identity, with their own traditions and cultures, fact that has caused a rift between them and England people.

In relation to the weather more than a half of year days are cloudy. The British weather is very changeable and can pass from a cold and rainy day to a sunny day in a few hours.