A mini guide to
Places worth your time in The City & Tower
Top places
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the neighbourhood.
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A Victorian covered market with a painted iron roof, full of cobbled lanes, pubs and shops. It featured as Diagon Alley in Harry Potter.
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Wren and Hooke's tall stone column marking where the 1666 fire began, with 311 steps up to a viewing gallery.
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A small pedestrian courtyard off Fenchurch Street, a quiet pocket among the City's lanes.
All that remains of a medieval church is its tower, standing in a small churchyard on Mark Lane.
A reconstructed Roman temple of Mithras, displayed beneath Bloomberg's European headquarters on Walbrook.
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A church founded in the 7th century, with a Saxon arch. Samuel Pepys climbed its tower to watch the Great Fire.
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A gallery of City paintings, with the remains of London's Roman amphitheatre beneath it.
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A Wren church on Cheapside, whose Bow Bells define who counts as a true Cockney.
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The City of London's medieval civic hall, with a great hall and statues of Gog and Magog.
A Second World War cruiser moored beside Tower Bridge, with decks and engine rooms open to explore.
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An oval garden in the City with lawns, a bandstand and a bowls green, ringed by office buildings.
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A full-size replica of the galleon Francis Drake sailed round the world in, moored at St Mary Overie Dock.
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A museum on the site of the medieval Clink Prison, with displays about medieval prisoners and punishment.
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The coronation regalia in the Jewel House at the Tower of London, including the Imperial State Crown.
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