Picadilly is the main artery of the West End. The name comes from the 17th fashionable pickadillstan (remember the white piece of clothing round their necks??). Saint James's still preserves buildings from the 18th century, when it was full of Royal palaces and the court gathered and shopped in the area. Two shops in Saint James's Street remind us of this time: the hat shop Lock and the wine shop Berry Bros. & Rudd. Fortnum and Mason, in Picadilly, has served quality food for almost 300 years. In the north, Mayfair, is still the most elegant suburb in London.
Sites to visit:
- Picadilly Circus (Eros, the Greek God of Love, has become a symbol of London)
- Saint James's Church (a favourite of Wren's)
- Albany (Lord Byron, Graham Green, two Prime Ministers , William Gladstone and Edward Heath, and the actor Terence Stamp lived in this appartment building)
- Royal Academy of Arts
- Burlington Arcade (it still has caretakers that throw out the people who don't keep the site clean)
- Ritz Hotel
- Spencer House
- Saint James's Palace
- Saint James's Square
- Royal Opera Arcade
- Pall Mall (150-year-old elegant clubs only for men where they fleed from their wives)
- Institute of Contemporary Arts
- Saint James's Park
- The Mall
- Marlborough House
- Queen's Chapel
- Clarence House
- Lancaster House
- Buckingham Palace
- Queen's Gallery
- Royal Mews
- Wellington Arch
- Apsley House
- Shepherd Market
- Green Park
- Faraday Museum (reconstruction of Faraday's, the pioneer of the 19th century in the use of electricity, scientific items and personal objects)
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