The Most Popular Tourist Attractions In London

By Olive Jillian Carter

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.

The Tower of London is a truly fascinating place to visit, is has been where the people of London have been protected, threatened, imprisoned and even executed for over a millennium. Originally built in the 11th century by William the Conqueror to keep the rowdy citizens of London under wraps.

Battersea Power station probably isn't something one would consider to be a famous attraction, however, since it was converted into Tate Modern, it has become far more widely renowned. It is the capital for fans of modern art and works by such noted modernists as Matisse, Dali, Picasso and perhaps most celebrated of all, Andy Warhol, are resident to it.

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 too many wondrous spectacles in London to list them all here, however, if you want to see them all, it will require more than just a day-trip, therefore, for your perfect trip to London, you will need the perfect hotel. There are hundreds of hotels in London, and finding the right one is as simple as finding a website that allows you to browse through them all.

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