Monday 2nd June 2025
Difficulty: Medium
Protected vistas (Quiz #927)
Questions by Maura Cassels
The protected vista of St Paul's from Richmond Park. Photo: Adam Hodgson @ Flickr (Creative Commons)
A protected vista or protected view is the legal requirement within urban planning to preserve the view of a specific place or historic building from another location. For example, one of the 13 protected vistas in London is the one from Westminster Pier to St Paul's Cathedral - so nothing can be built that obstructs this view.
1. Which of these buildings in London is NOT the subject of a protected vista?
2. The longest protected vista in London is from King Henry VIII's Mound in Richmond Park to St Paul's Cathedral - a distance of over 10 miles (16 km) and created in 1710. This has been changed by the construction of a new building in 2016. Was the new building...
3. How many protected vistas are there in New York City?
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