The financial district of London. It is built on top of the Roman settlement of Londinium. The complete name is City of London, but it is best-known as The City. Most of the area disappeared in both the Great Fire in 1666 and World War II.Sites to see and visit in Cockneyland:
- Mansion House (official residence of the Town Hall Mayor)
- Saint Stephen Walbrook church
- Royal Exchange
- Bank of England Museum
- Saint Mary-le-Bow church
- Saint Paul's Cathedral
- Old Bailey (long relationship with crime; opposite, the pub "Magpie and Stump" used to serve the execution breakfasts until 1868 until the hanging outside the prison was forbidden)
- Apothecaries' Hall (most members are doctors and surgeons; some strange old students: Oliver Cromwell and John Keats)
- Fishmonger's Hall
- Saint Magnus the Martyr church (shouldn't it be Olga instead of Magnus?)
- Monument
- Old Billingsgate
- Saint Mary-at-Hill church
- Saint Margarit -oops, Saint Margaret Pattens church
- Tower Bridge
- All Hallows by the Tower
- Tower of London
- Saint Katharines's Dock
- Stock Exchange
- Saint Helen's Bishopgate church
- Saint Katharine Cree church
- Leadenhall Market (started as the Roman Forum and has had a market since the Middle Ages)
- Lloyd's of London (modern building that remind us of the Pompidou in Paris)
- Guildhall Art Gallery
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