Places To Go in London

 

 

 

 

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