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Cambridge is world famous for its university buildings which date back centuries. The most famous view of all is the King’s College Chapel from which a carol service is broadcast around the world just before Christmas every year. Rubens’ painting Adoration of the Magi hangs above the altar in the chapel. Henry the Sixth started planning King’s College in 1441.
Along the banks of the river Cam stand the courts and gardens of most of the older colleges. It flows past Peterhouse founded in 1284, the first of the Cambridge colleges.
Further on it passes Queens’, Clare College, Trinity and St John’s. Trinity is the largest of the Cambridge colleges and St John’s is the second largest and was founded in 1511 by King Henry the Seventh’s mother, Margaret Countess of Richmond and Derby.
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