On the fifth day of the visit, Victoria and Albert took the emperor and empress to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham to the south-east of London. This innovative structure, which Albert called ʻa real work of artʼ, was first erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, and then dismantled and rebuilt at Sydenham as a centre for leisure and entertainment. Victoria recorded that their guests were ʻdelighted & much surprised at itʼ.