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The largest city in Europe, London stretches for more than thirty miles at its broadest point. London has grown through a process of agglomeration - villages and urban developments that once surrounded the core are now lost within the amorphous mass of Greater London and not by centralized planning.
River Thames loops through the city from west to east and most of the sights are situated to the north of this river.
The city of London is both very modern and very ancient as it is one of the biggest financial powers of this world and yet retains its share of historic sights, notably the Tower of London and a fine cache of Wren churches that includes St Paul's Cathedral. Despite creeping trends, the East End , to the east of the City, is not conventional tourist territory, but to ignore it entirely is to miss out a crucial element of contemporary London. 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 Thatcher dream.
Few areas can be easily explored on foot like Westminster and Whitehall. These areas are part of London’s royal, political and ecclesiastical power base where the National Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and a host of other landmarks can be found. 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.
East of Piccadilly Circus, Soho and Covent Garden are also easy to walk around and form the heart of the West End entertainment district, containing the largest concentration of theatres, cinemas, clubs, flashy shops, cafés and restaurants. To the north lies the university quarter of Bloomsbury , home to the ever-popular British Museum, and the secluded quadrangles of Holborn's Inns of Court, London's legal heartland.
A small part of central London lies to the south of the Thames namely Lambeth and Southwark. The South Bank Centre due to its proximity to the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art in Bankside has gained popularity. The bankside is now linked to the City by a new pedestrian bridge.
Hyde park is the largest segment of greenery in central London that separates the wealthy area of Kensington and Chelsea from the city centre. The museums of South Kensington - the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum - are a must for tourists and if you have shopping on your agenda, you'll want to check out the hive of plush stores in the vicinity of Harrods and of course Harrods as well.
The most hectic weekend market takes place around Camden Town in North London while further in the literary suburbs of Hampstead and Highgate are unbeaten views. The Hampstead Heaves is a favourite parkland of thousands of Londoners.
Greenwich in south London is a place of nautical associations while Royal Park and observatory along with its Dome add to the glory of south London. Finally, there are plenty of rewarding day-trips along the Thames from Chiswick to Windsor , most notably Hampton Court Palace and Windsor Castle.
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