Golden Age (1938-1955)
10 things you absolutely need to see and do in London
Our guide features London's finest galleries, museums, monuments, historic sites, shopping and entertainment areas, all guaranteed to provide the best London tourist experience. The attractions we have highlighted are clearly known, but what they really want to be back home to tell your friends about the fantastic thimble shop in Pimlico you visited? Or would you rather rave about the spectacular view one of the great cities of the world from above the eyes, or you've seen the beauty of sunflowers of Van Gogh with his own eyes?
London has a multitude of attractions varied and exciting, but these are the ones without which, your trip will not just be the same!
busiest street main street Britain Oxford and London is the best known shopping area is chock-full of the largest branches of the country's most popular shopping, - In fact, more than 300. Many of the street's biggest names have their flagship stores here and the street also has the oldest record shop in the world (HMV at number 363). It is not all hardcore shopping though - light entertainment is often provided in the form of singing Hari Krishna jumping on the sidewalk. If you can not find what to buy in Oxford Street, you have not got much hope elsewhere.
Nearest Tube: Marble Arch, Bond Street, Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road
Camden Market If you are looking for a more bohemian shops of Oxford Street experience, then you get up to Camden. One of the coolest areas of London has an endless variety of shops and stalls selling items such as clothing (new, second hand and retro), Custom Doc Martins and trainers, jewelry, pirated DVDs and CDs and handicrafts. Open daily, is a multicultural experience with some small restaurants great splattered everywhere.
Nearest tube: Camden Town
Tower of London Built by Billy the Conqueror nearly a thousand years ago, this is one of the best preserved and most famous historic sites in the world. Comprehensive history of executions and imprisonments and offering the spectacle of the Beefeaters, the ravens and the crown jewels and the majesty of the building itself, this remains the essential place of historic interest to visit when in London.
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Nearest tube: Tower Hill.
St. Paul's Cathedral Britain knows best place of worship and certainly one of its buildings most recognizable, having been so often the center of state occasions. The cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and built 300 years after the destruction the building before the great fire of London. An impressive feat of architecture, steeped in history and art offerings, monuments, mosaics and the Whispering Gallery the Cathedral is also still a busy working church. So booking your wedding here during the summer might be a little difficult.
Nearest tube: St. Paul
National Gallery The National Gallery is home to one of the largest collections of European art in the world. Featuring works painted between 1250 and 1900, the collection includes such well-known as sunflowers of Van Gogh, Botticelli's Venus and Mars and Wain Constable Hay. Unfortunately, the work of great Rolf Harris is too recent and too Australian to be included - see the Tate Modern.
Nearest tube: Charing Cross. Admission: Free
British Museum Founded 250 years ago, one could say that the British Museum is one of the oldest precious exhibits and more from London - The museum building itself is one of the largest British architectural landmarks. Located inside is a collection of art and antiques of the ancient and living cultures around the world covering two million years with the Rosetta Stone, the Easter Island statue and the first known picture of Christ.
Tubes station: Tottenham Court Road, Goodge Street, Russell Square and Holborn. Admission: Free
London Eye Without doubt, the quickest way take all the major attractions in London is jumping to the eye. Not much of the city that can not be seen from the top of what has become one of the more features that dominate the skyline of London. To further enhance your flight on this feat of engineering today, you can even order champagne to be served in the capsule (not recommended for ease nausea). http://www.londoneye.com
Nearest Tube: Waterloo and Westminster.
Tate Modern If random blotches of paint on canvas and lots of old rusted engine is its idea of art, then you get to the Tate Modern. Created in a disused power station on the banks of the Thames, the gallery has become one of the attractions London's most exciting since its opening in 2000. The collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Pollock and Warhol and represents significant movement from all 1900. Unfortunately, the work of the great Rolf Harris is the art also to be included - see the National Gallery.
Nearest Tube: Southwark and Blackfriars. Admission: Free (but donations are welcome)
Covent Garden, a former fruit and vegetable market, 'The Garden' is now a constant hive of activity varied. It has a huge selection of shops, restaurants, bars, a market selling art, crafts, antiques and souvenirs, historic buildings, theaters, the Royal Opera House and fantastic free entertainment provided by street performers and musicians. If you can not find something to hold their interest at Covent Garden then you should be harder to please than Simon Cowell on a bad day.
Nearest tube: Covent Garden.
Trafalgar Square is no doubt one of the sights of London without visiting which, a trip to the capital would be incomplete. Not only tourists are attracted to see Nelson's Column, the fountains, the lions, the annual gift of a huge Christmas tree from Norway and the pigeons (dirty so little income), but it is where the masses flock to in times of national celebration or when there is reason to demonstrate. Trafalgar Square truly is the meeting place of the nation.
Nearest tube: Charing Cross.
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