Private City Sightseeing Tour: The Tower to St Paul's

About this experience

Two thousand years of London in one walk, from the Romans who built the first walls, to the Vikings who raided it, to the bankers and traders who turned this one square mile into one of the most powerful patches of land on Earth. This is a private tour, just your group and a local guide, at your pace, with no fixed script. Perfect if it's your first time in London and you want the essentials without the guesswork, or if you've been before and want to actually understand what you're looking at this time. Along the way: - The Tower of London - Tower Bridge - London Bridge - The Shard - The Monument to the Great Fire - The Walkie Talkie - The Bank of England - The Royal Exchange - St Paul's Cathedral - & more! Good for: first-time visitors who want to get properly oriented, families wanting an engaging, history walk, and anyone who wants London explained by someone who actually lives here.

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What you actually do

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   Nearly 1,000 years old! Built by William the Conqueror as a fortress, later a royal prison, execution site, and home to the Crown Jewels (and the ravens who, legend says, protect the kingdom).

   About 10 minutes · admission not included

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   London's most famous bridge! Its Victorian bascules still lift for river traffic to this day.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

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   Western Europe's tallest building when it opened in 2012. A glass spike over a city that spent 2,000 years staying low to the ground.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

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   Not the famous one, but a crossing has stood here since the Romans first founded the city. The medieval version was lined with shops, houses, and (grimly) traitors' heads on spikes.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

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   Christopher Wren's column marking the Great Fire of 1666. Its height is exactly the distance to the bakery on Pudding Lane where the fire began.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

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   "The Walkie Talkie"! A modern skyscraper with a genuinely wild claim to fame when, in 2013, its curved glass front concentrated sunlight so intensely it melted parts of a car parked on the street below. London's most infamous architectural mistake.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

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   Founded in 1571 as London's first proper trading floor, modelled on Antwerp's bourse, look up for the grasshopper weathervane, the crest of the merchant who built it. Now luxury shops sit where traders once haggled.

   Duration not published · passes by without stopping

What is and is not included

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