London’s Most Spectacular Tourist Attractions

Posted by Markus Lampshade

May 31, 2009

by Markus Lampshade

London in itself is one of the worlds leading tourist attractions and with so much to see and do its hard to know where to start once you’re there. The entertainment and activities are never ending and to make sure that you travel home knowing that you really have seen and done anything that London has to offer, there are a huge number of must-see sites.

The London Eye is among the first attractions to spring to mind, and one of the most recent additions to London’s back-catalogue of spectacles. It was opened up to the public in 1999 and faced criticism from sceptics, but then went on to become one of the world’s biggest tourist attractions.

Another main attraction of London is St Paul’s Cathedral. It is a monument to the renaissance style of architecture, redesigned and rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1668, just after the great fire of London. The stunningly beautiful cathedral, located atop Ludgate Hill, stands today as Britain’s most iconic building.

Arguably the attraction with the most gruesome history, the Tower of London has been a prison and place of execution for London’s people in the past. It was built by William the Conqueror originally, to try and keep London’s rowdy rabble under wraps.

Tate Modern (of course another main attraction) was converted from Battersea power station, and is the cities capital for believers of modern art along with the sceptical and the curious to view works of art from such celebrated modernists as Dali, Picasso, Matisse and of course Andy Warhol.

Buckingham Palace is possibly the most famous London attraction of them all. The official home of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, it’s one of the most instantly recognisable places on the planet. It is open for guided tours and is full of fantastic art works, although is not an official art gallery.

The last London spectacle that I shall mention here, but by no standards the last worth visiting, is the Natural History Museum. It was designed by Alfred Waterhouse and built in 1881 using Victorian building techniques and was originally made to house the growing amount of natural history exhibits in the British Museum and subsequently grew into the vast spectacle of a museum that it is today.

I couldn’t possibly describe all of London’s attractions here, but to take in London in it’s entirety, it will definately take more than one day. Therefore, to complete your trip to London, the perfect hotel is the icing on the cake. There are hundreds of truly great hotels in London, and to choose which one os right for you and your group, it’s simply a matter of finding a website that has a full list of them, and browsing to your heart’s content.

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Visitukhotels.com offers a great range of hotels in Londons. So give them a visit to see find the perfect hotels in London for your London break.

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