Places to visit in London

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About the London Transport Museum

The London Transport Museum history is very interesting  -  did you know the main facility of the museum, a Victorian iron and glass building, was initially used as a vegetable, fruit and flower market?&nb…

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The Royal Opera House

The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden is one of the world's most important performing arts venues, home to both the Royal Opera and the Royal Ballet. The current building is the third theatre on this site, and it has be…

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The National Gallery of London

The National Gallery sits on the north side of Trafalgar Square and holds one of the greatest collections of Western European paintings in the world. Entry is free, and it has been that way since the gallery first opened…

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Chinatown London

London's Chinatown is a compact, colourful neighbourhood centred on Gerrard Street in the West End, just a minute's walk from Leicester Square. It's one of the most visited spots in central London and has been the heart …

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Trafalgar Square in London

Trafalgar Square is the symbolic heart of London and one of the most visited public spaces in the world. Named after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the square was designed by John Nash and built in the 1830s and 1840s.…

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Palace Theater

The Palace Theatre is one of the most striking buildings on Cambridge Circus in London's West End, a grand red-brick and terracotta Victorian building that has been a landmark of London's theatre district since 1891. Th…

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The Ten Bells Spitalfields

The Ten Bells is one of the oldest pubs in London's East End, standing on the corner of Commercial Street and Fournier Street in Spitalfields. It has been serving drinks since at least 1752 and carries some of the darkes…

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Truman Brewery

The Old Truman Brewery is one of London's most important cultural and creative hubs, occupying the site of what was once the largest brewery in the world. It stretches along Brick Lane in the heart of London's East End. …

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The Tabernacle

The Tabernacle is a striking red-brick Victorian building on Powis Square in Notting Hill, originally built as an evangelical church and now serving as one of west London's most vibrant community arts venues. The church…

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Notting Hill Bookshop

The Notting Hill Bookshop is a small, welcoming independent bookstore on Blenheim Crescent that became world-famous after its interior was used as the model for the bookshop in the 1999 film "Notting Hill," starring Hugh…

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Green Park

Green Park is one of London's Royal Parks, a peaceful triangle of mature trees and open grassland sitting between Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly, and Constitution Hill. It's the simplest of the royal parks: no lakes, no f…

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Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile

The Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family in Exile is a hidden architectural treasure on Duke Street in Mayfair, just off Oxford Street. Most Londoners walk past it every day without knowing it's there. The bu…

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey is one of the most important religious buildings in the English-speaking world and the coronation church of the British monarchy for nearly 1,000 years. The current Gothic church was largely built betw…

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Buckingham Palace

Buckingham Palace is the official London residence of the British monarch and one of the most recognized buildings in the world. It has been the administrative headquarters of the monarchy since Queen Victoria moved in o…

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St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral is Sir Christopher Wren's masterpiece and one of the most important churches in the world. Its dome, rising 111 metres above Ludgate Hill, has been a defining feature of the London skyline since 1710.…

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Kensington Palace

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Seven Dials

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Goodwin's Court

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Clement Danes Church