Famous as the entertainment area of town since its creation in the 12th century. Throughout its first hundred years, it was a very elegant area and its inhabitants held eccentric parties. It has become a multicultural suburb, famous for its Chinatown.
Sites to see:
- Trafalgar Square
- Admiralty Arch
- National Gallery
- Saint Martin-in-the-Fields (model of a church for United States; famous people are buried there -eg Charles's II lover Nell Gynne, the painters William Hogarth andJoshua Reynolds)
- National Portrait Gallery (it shows British history through the portraits of poets, kings and Queens, musicians, philosophers, heroes and villains)
- Leiscester Square (with Charles Chaplin's statue and Shakespeare's fountain)
- Theatre Royal Haymarket
- Shaftesbury Avenue (the theatre and cinema street; Count Shaftesbury opened this avenue between 1877 and 1886 to improve communications to the West End through a very poor suburb; he improved the lives of the poor of the area)
- Chinatown
- Charing Cross (bookshop street)
- Palace Theatre (the only architectural interesting theatre; it belongs to Andrew Lloyd Webber)
- Soho Square
- Berwick Street Market (veg & fuit street market since 1840)
- Carnaby Street (the Oxford dictionary accepts Carnaby as a synonym of "fashionable clothes for young people")
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