Places To Go in London
Original London Tour
- London Piccadilly Circus / Eros Statue
- The statue of Eros, set in the middle of Piccadilly Circus, is one of the most recognisable symbols of London. Originally known as the Shaftebury Monument, it was unveiled in 1893 as a memorial to the Victorian philanthropist, Lord Shaftesbury.
Original London Tour
- Trafalgar Square & Nelson’s Column
- Trafalgar Square is
the vibrant heart of London and the best starting point for exploration
of its central part .
- In the middle of Trafalgar Square you
can find Nelson’s Column, which is surrounded by fountains and four huge bronze statues of lions.
Original London Tour
- Hyde Park
- Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central london, United Kingdom, and one of the royal parks of london famous for its speakers corner.
Original London Tour
- Apsley House - The Wellington Museum
- Apsley House, on the south-east corner of hyde park, was once known as No. I London.It was the first building past the tollgate into capital for travellers westward.
Original London Tour
- Changing the Guard at Buckhingham Palace
- Welcome to one of London's Top attractions! This colourful ceremony is one of the 'must sees' on a trip to London
Original London Tour
- Westminster Abbey
- The collegiate church of st.peter at westminster, popularly known as wesminster abbey, is a large, mainly gothic church, in the city of westminster, located just to the west of the palace of westminster.
Original London Tour
- Big Ben
- It is
the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the palace of wesminster in london
Original London Tour
- London Eye
- It is the tallest ferris wheel in europe, and the most popular paid tourist attraction in the united kingdom
Original London Tour
- The new SEA LIFE London Aquarium is home to one of Europe’s largest collections of global marine
Original London Tour
- Horse Guards Parade
- It is a large parade ground off whitenhall in central london
Original London Tour
- London Bridge
- It is a bridge over the River Thames, connecting the City of London and Southwark, in central london. Situated between cannon street railway bridge and Tower bridge
Original London Tour
- The London Dungeon
- It is a popular London tourist attraction, which recreates various gory and macabre historical events in a grimly comedic ‘gallows
humor' style, attempting to make them appealing to younger audiences. It uses a mixture of live actors, special effects and rides.
Original London Tour
- Shakespeare’s Globe
- It is a faithful reconstruction of the open-air playhouse first built in 1599, where Shakespeare worked and for which he wrote many of his greatest plays.
Original London Tour
- The Sherlock Holmes
- is a split Level establishment with a bar on the ground floor and on the first floor, an intimate, covered roof garden and the Sherlock Holmes restaurant.
- The study can be viewed from both the roof garden and the restaurant, with an entire wall of the study being glass plated to give commanding views from where you are eating.
The statue of Eros, set in the
middle of Piccadilly Circus, is one of
the most recognisable symbols of London.
Originally known as the Shaftebury Monument,
it was unveiled in 1893 as a memorial
to the Victorian philanthropist, Lord Shaftesbury.
Eros, a figure of a winged archer
poised delicately with his bow, was intended
to be an 'angel of christian charity',
but was later renamed after the Greek
god of love. The sculptor Alfred Gilbert
incorporated a wide variety of fish and
crustaceans life into the bronze fountain
and the figure of Eros, rising above
the fountain, was made of aluminum, which
was a rare material at the time.
The name of this largest public space
in London come from the sea Battle
of Trafalgar.
Trafalgar Square is the vibrant heart
of London and the best starting point for exploration of its central
part – right in the neighbourhood there is the government district
of Whitehall with the British Parliament and is also close to Buckingham
Palace and Westminster Abbey. You can get here by underground with lines
Bakerloo or Northern, from the Charing Cross station. Trafalgar Square also serves as a stop for many day and night buses and also
for well-known red double-deckers that offer sightseeing.
In the middle of Trafalgar Square you
can find Nelson’s
Column, which is surrounded by
fountains and four huge bronze statues of lions. At the top of the pillar
there is a statue of Lord Nelson, who commanded the British navy at
the Battle of Trafalgar.
The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park is contiguous
with Kensington
Gardens;
although often still assumed to be part of Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens
has been technically separate since 1728, when Queen
Caroline made
a division between the two.
Buckingham Palace History
Buckingham Palace was built in 1702
by the Duke of Buckingham as his
London home. The house was then later
sold to George III in 1761 by the
Dukes son. In 1774 it was renamed
"Queen's House" as Queen Charlotte
resided there.
Changing the Guard or Guard Mounting
is the process involving a new guard
exchanging duty with the old guard.
The Guard which mounts at Buckingham
Palace is called The Queen’s Guard and
is divided into two Detachments: the Buckingham
Palace Detachment (which is responsible for
guarding Buckingham Palace), and the St.
James’s Palace Detachment, (which guards
St. James’s Palace). These guard duties
are normally provided by a battalion of
the Household Division and occasionally by
other infantry battalions or other units.
When Guardsmen are on duty, the soldiers
are drawn from one of the five regiments
of Foot Guards in the British Army:
the Scots Guards, the Irish Guards, the
Welsh Guards, the Grenadier Guards and
the Coldstream
Opening in 1974, it was initially designed
as more a museum of "horrible history",
but the Dungeon has evolved to become
an actor-led, interactive experience. The Dungeon
is operated by Merlin
Entertainments.
The reconstructed Globe opened in 1997.
is a split Level establishment with
a bar on the ground floor and on
the first floor, an intimate, covered
roof garden and the Sherlock Holmes restaurant.
The study can be viewed from both
the roof garden and the restaurant, with
an entire wall of the study being
glass plated to give commanding views
from where you are eating