Thursday, December 3, 2009

Kensington and Holland Park


Around Holland Park, you can see unbelievable Victorian Houses in a luxurious residential area. Two of them are open to the public. Bayswater and Noting Hill are more cosmopolitan and lively. Portobello Road has beome a popular market, where you can find anything from food to antiques.

Sites to see:

  • Holland Park (with more trees than Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. It contains some original gardens from the beginning of the 19th century, a Japanese garden and fauna)
  • Leighton House
  • Linley Sambourne House
  • Kensington Roof Gardens (6000 square metres of a 1930 garden on a roof; the gardens include a wood, a Spanish garden with palm trees, an English garden with pond, ducks and a couple of flamingoes. Free entry)
  • Kensington Square
  • Kensington Palace Gardens
  • The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Playground
  • Queensway
  • Portobello Road (a lively market since 1837)
  • Notting Hill

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