London: empire, resilience and reinvention
Attractions
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Tower of London
England's most formidable medieval fortress, guarding the Crown Jewels behind nine centuries of royal history, imprisonment and legend.
British Museum
The world's oldest national public museum, housing eight million objects spanning two million years of human history, from the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Marbles.
Buckingham Palace
The monarch's official London residence since 1837, its State Rooms opened to the public each summer and its forecourt the daily stage for the Changing the Guard.
Food & Dining
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Borough Market
A sprawling covered food market under the railway arches by London Bridge, trading on or near this site for close to a thousand years and now a showcase for artisan produce and street food.
Dishoom (Covent Garden)
The original branch of London's Bombay-inspired restaurant group, recreating the vanishing Irani cafés of early-20th-century Bombay with a menu built around bacon naan rolls and slow-cooked black daal.
The Wolseley
A grand all-day brasserie on Piccadilly inside a 1920s former car showroom built for Wolseley Motors, its black marble columns and Viennese café grandeur drawing a media and celebrity crowd from breakfast to late supper.
Shop
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Harrods
The world-famous Knightsbridge department store, trading from its iconic terracotta building since the early 1900s, spanning roughly 330 departments from designer fashion to the historic Food Halls.
Portobello Road Market
A Notting Hill street market running nearly a mile, home to one of the world's largest antiques markets alongside fruit, vegetables, vintage fashion and street food stalls.
Liberty London
A mock-Tudor department store on Great Marlborough Street, built in 1924 partly from the timbers of two Royal Navy ships, and synonymous ever since with its distinctive Liberty print fabrics.
Top Highlights
Tower of London
England's most formidable medieval fortress, guarding the Crown Jewels behind nine centuries of royal history, imprisonment and legend.
British Museum
The world's oldest national public museum, housing eight million objects spanning two million years of human history, from the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Marbles.
Buckingham Palace
The monarch's official London residence since 1837, its State Rooms opened to the public each summer and its forecourt the daily stage for the Changing the Guard.
Borough Market
A sprawling covered food market under the railway arches by London Bridge, trading on or near this site for close to a thousand years and now a showcase for artisan produce and street food.
Dishoom (Covent Garden)
The original branch of London's Bombay-inspired restaurant group, recreating the vanishing Irani cafés of early-20th-century Bombay with a menu built around bacon naan rolls and slow-cooked black daal.
The Wolseley
A grand all-day brasserie on Piccadilly inside a 1920s former car showroom built for Wolseley Motors, its black marble columns and Viennese café grandeur drawing a media and celebrity crowd from breakfast to late supper.
Harrods
The world-famous Knightsbridge department store, trading from its iconic terracotta building since the early 1900s, spanning roughly 330 departments from designer fashion to the historic Food Halls.
Portobello Road Market
A Notting Hill street market running nearly a mile, home to one of the world's largest antiques markets alongside fruit, vegetables, vintage fashion and street food stalls.
Liberty London
A mock-Tudor department store on Great Marlborough Street, built in 1924 partly from the timbers of two Royal Navy ships, and synonymous ever since with its distinctive Liberty print fabrics.