The Most Popular Tourist Attractions In London
June 1, 2009 by Markus Lampshade
Filed under Hotels
London is home to a huge number of fantastic tourist attractions and it can be difficult to know where to begin once you arrive. The sights are almost never-ending and to make sure you leave having seen everything London has to offer, there is a great deal of sight seeing to be getting on with!
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.
Re-designed and re-built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1668, St. Paul’s Cathedral is another of London’s must see attractions. It is a breathtakingly beautiful building which is recognised today as one of Britain’s most iconic buildings.
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.
For the artistic types, there is of course, the Tate Modern. The modern art capital of the country and home to works from such esteemed modernists as Picasso, Matisse, Dali and perhaps most notably of all, 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 Natural History Museum is the last sight that I will list here, but it is by no means the last to be seen. It was as somewhere to put all natural history items that the British Museum had (it was nearly over-flowing with them) and over time became the great museum we know it as today. It is a wonderfully spectacular building designed by Alfred Waterhouse in 1880-1881.
There are far too many great attractions in London to list here, but it will definitely take more than one day to see them all, and it is most definitely worth seeing them all. Therefore you will want a great hotel to stay at while you take in all the Great British culture, which there are also many of, its simply a matter of choosing the one that is right for you.