Over the coming months there will be four blog posts for each city on the Davis High School Baroque Ensemble’s 2020 England-France Tour tour: Place of Interest; Concert Venue; Music; History of the city. This week’s post, the first of the series, is on places of interest in London.
The ‘London Eye’ with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament in the background
London has a many important cultural sites including:
- The Tower of London
- St. Paul’s Cathedral
- Westminster Abbey
- Palace of Westminster
- Buckingham Palace
- Trafalgar Square
- National Gallery and adjacent National Portrait Gallery
- Science Museum, and nearby Victoria & Albert Museum
- The London Museum
- Handel & Jimi Hendrix House Museum
- ‘London Eye’
- Covent Garden market
- Boat trips on the Thames
Transportation in central London is easy by the ‘Tube’, and many sights are close enough to walk between them (e.g., St Paul’s, Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, & Tate Modern; London Eye, Houses of Parliament, & Westminster Abbey). Oxford Street, Regent’s Street, Bond Street, & Covent Garden Market are popular areas for shopping. The historic sites – Hampton Court Palace, and Greenwich are further afield.
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- Greenwich Observatory &and the Prime Meridian
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- Globe Theater
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- Hampton Court Palace
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- Handel & Jimi Hendrix House Museum
