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London has grown not through centralized planning but by a steady process of merge, meaning that though the majority of the city’s sights are situated to the north of the River Thames, which loops through the centre of the city from west to east, there is no single focus of interest.  Villages and urban developments that once surrounded the core are now lost within the amorphous mass of Greater London, leaving London’s highlights very widely spread, and meaning that visitors should make mastering the public transport system, particularly the Underground (tube), a top priority. If London has a centre, it’s probably Trafalgar Square, home to Nelson’s Column and the National Gallery. It’s also as good a place as any to start exploring the city, especially as the area to the south of here, Westminster and Whitehall, is one of the easiest bits to discover on foot. This was the city’s royal, political and ecclesiastical power base for centuries, and you’ll find some of London’s most famous landmarks here: Downing Street, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and, across St James’s Park, Buckingham Palace. The grand streets and squares of St James’s, Mayfair and Marylebone, to the north of Westminster, have been the playground of the rich since the Restoration, and now contain the city’s busiest shopping zones: Piccadilly, Bond Street, Regent Street and, most notorious of the lot, Oxford Street. East of Piccadilly Circus, Soho, Chinatown and Covent Garden are also easy to walk around and form the heart of the West End entertainment district, where you’ll find the largest concentration of theatres, cinemas, clubs, flashy shops, cafés and restaurants. Adjoining Covent Garden to the north, the university quarter of Bloomsbury is the traditional home of the publishing industry and location of the ever-popular British Museum, a stupendous treasure house that now boasts the largest covered public space in Europe. Welding the West End to the financial district, Holborn is a little—visited area, but it offers some of central London’s most surprising treats, among them the eccentric Sir John Soane’s Museum and the secluded quadrangles of the Inns of Court. A couple of miles downstream from Westminster, Past the magnificent London Eye The City of London, is simultaneously the most ancient and the most modern part of London. Settled since Roman times, the area became the commercial and residential heart of medieval London, with its own Lord Mayor and its own peculiar form of local government, both of which survive (with considerable pageantry) to this day. The Great Fire of 1666 obliterated most of the City, and the resident population has dwindled to insignificance, yet this remains one of the great financial centres of the world, with the most prominent landmarks these days being the hi-tech offices of banks and insurance companies. However, the Square Mile boasts its share of historic sights too, notably the Tower of London and a fine cache of Wren churches that includes the mighty St Paul’s Cathedral.
The South Bank, Bankside and Southwark together make up the small slice of central London that lies south of the Thames. The South Bank Centre itself, London’s little-loved concrete culture bunker is enjoying a new lease of life — thanks, in part, to the feel-good factor emanating from the graceful London Eye, which hangs over the Thames nearby. Bankside, the city’s low-life district from Roman times to the eighteenth century, is also enjoying a renaissance, with a new pedestrian bridge linking St Paul’s with the former power station that is now home to the Tate Modern, London’s extraordinary museum of modern art.
The East End and Docklands, to the east of the City, are equally notorious London, but in entirely different ways. Impoverished and working—class, the East End is not conventional tourist territory, yet to ignore it is to miss out a crucial element of the real, multi—ethnic London.  With its abandoned warehouses converted into overpriced apartment blocks for the city’s upwardly mobile, Docklands is the converse of the down-at-heel East End, with the Canary Wharf tower, the country’s tallest building, epitomizing the pretensions of the 80s’ ministerial Thatcherite dream. In Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens you’ll find the largest park in central London, a segment of greenery which separates wealthy west London London from the city centre. London sightseeing Wherever you are from, we can help you make the most of your time in London and all over the UK with superb guided tours, evenings out and the best shows.  We offer specialist services for the visitor, with affiliations to all the major organisations concerned with looking after tourists. Online Discounted Hotels offer Golden Tours sightseeing who are London's leading sightseeing company, and here are a few reasons why so many satisfied visitors always make us their first choice.

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