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Le Cento Giornate di Londra

(120 itineraries in&out London plus some weeks up and some days off)

 

 

Routes (21)

Visits (b plans) (39)

Walk Week (7)

Excursion Month (30)

Trips Out Of Town (24)

Nights Out

 

 

 


 

Route 01
Trafalgar-Covent

Trafalgar Square

Orienteering

St. Martin In The Fields

Coliseum Theatre

Garrick Theatre

Charing Cross Road

Hippodrome

Leicester Square

Soho Fire Station

84 Charing Cross

The Circus

Phoenix Theatre

Shelton Street

Demmark Street

Centrepoint

Tottenham Court Road

YMCA

New Oxford Street

Shaftesbury Avenue

Rainforest Café

Drury Lane

Market Lane

The Rules

Aldwych Theatre

Theatre Museum

London Transport Museum

Covent Garden

Covent Piazza

Central Market

Great Queen Street

Freemason’s Hall

Kingsway

The Lyceum

Royal Opera House

The Crown

The Anchor

Neal’s Street

Thomas Neal

Monmouth Street

Cafeteria

Seven Dials

Noel Theatre

Duke Of York Theatre

Trafalgar Square

B Plan

National Gallery

Covent Garden

 

 

Route 02

Piccadilly

Trafalgar Square

Pall Mall East

New Zealand House

St. James’s Square

Shepherds’ Market

St. James’s Palace

Clarence House

St. James’s Street

Piccadilly Circus

Waterstones

Ritz Hotel

Fortnum & Mason

Piccadilly Street

The Grapes

Hard Rock Café’

Wellington Memorial

Wellington Arch

Park Lane

Speaker’s Corner

Marble Arch

 

B Plan

Piccadilly Circus //

Trocadero //

Leicester Square//
Trafalgar Square

 

Route 03
Buckingham
Trafalgar Square

Pall Mall

Buckingham Palace

Canadian Memorial

Green Park

Wellington Arch

Hyde Park Corner

Serpentine Road

Diana Fountain

Serpentine Gallery

Peter Pan

Lancaster Gate

Marble Arch

B Plan

Changing Of The Guards // Buckingham Palace

 

 

Route 04
Whitehall

Trafalgar Square

Whitehall

Banqueting House

Downing Street

Memorial War House

Horse Guard

St. James’s Park

Buckingham Palace

Wellington Barracks

Birdcage Walk

Parliament Square

Big Ben

Cenotaph

Victoria Embankment

Thornbury Close

Trafalgar Square

B Plan

Hyde Park // Serpentine Boating // Green Park // St. James’s Park

 

 

Route 05
The Strand
Trafalgar Square

South African House

The Strand

Aldwych

St. Mary Le Strand

Courthouse Manor

Somerset House

The Temple

Adelphi Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Savoy Chapel

Lancaster House

Staple Inn

Sir John Sloane’s Museum

Temple Bar Memorial

Fleet Street

Royal Courts Of Justice

Twinings

Old Curiosity Shop

Lincoln’s Inn

Holborn

B Plan

National Gallery

 

Route 06
Soho

Trafalgar Square

Her Majesty’s Theatre

Embassies

Haymarket

Sports Bar
Regent’s Street
Absolutely Ice Bar
Oxford Street

Chinatown

Old Compton Street

Bar Italia

Berwick Street Market

Firth Street

Soho Square

Carnaby Street

Piccadilly Circus

Virgin

Lilywhite’s

Coventry Street

Trocadero

Empire

Hippodrome

Leicester Square

B Plan:
Soho // Carnaby Street
Oxford Street

 

 

Route 07
Bloomsbury

Chancery Lane

Staple Inn

Gray Inn’s Street

Dickens’ House Museum

St. George’s Gardens

King’s Cross
Harry Potter

St. Pancras

British Library

Euston

Tavistock Square

Portland Street

Telecom Tower

Bedford Square

Cartwright Gardens

University College

Russell Square

Sicilian Avenue

Bloomsbury Way

Senate House

British Museum

Holborn

Lincoln Inn’s Fields

Dominion Theatre

Tottenham Court Road

Covent Garden

B Plan

British Museum

 

Route 08
Marylebone

Piccadilly Circus

Regent’s Street

Nike World
Oxford Street

Oxford Circus

All Souls’

Great Portland Street

Marylebone

St. Marylebone

University of Westminster

Madame Tussaud’s

Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes Museum
Beatles’ Shop

Regent’s Park

St. John’s Wood
Lord’s Cricket Ground

Abbey Road

B Plan

Madame Tussaud’s

 

 

Route 09
Notting Hill

Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gardens

Round Pound

Bayswater

Queensway

Broad Walk

Diana Memorial

Kensington High Street

Holland Park

Sticky Fingers

Bayswater

Notting Hill

Pembroke Villas

Portobello Road

Notting Hill Blue Door

Ladbroke Grove

B Plan

Portobello Market

 

 

Route 10
Kensington

Stamford Bridge

Fulham Road

Chelsea

South Kensington

Exhibition Road

Cromwell Road

Science Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

Natural History Museum

Harrod’s

Knightsbridge

Royal Albert Hall

Albert Memorial

Kensington Garden

B Plan

Exhibition Road Museums

 

 

Route 11
Jubilee Walk 1

Westminster

Big Ben
Westminster Bridge

County Hall

Fright Club
London Aquarium

Southside

Dali’ Universe

London Eye

Shell
I-Max

Jubilee Gardens

Hungerfoot Bridge

Royal Festival Hall

Queen Elizabeth Hall

Purcell Room

Hayward Gallery

Waterloo Bridge

National Film Theatre

Cleopatra’s Needle

Thames Path

Gabriel’s Path

OXO Tower

Bankside Walk

Dugget’s

Blackfriars’ Bridge

Tate Modern

 

B Plan
Tate Modern

Big Ben

Houses Of Parliament

Westminster Abbey

 

Route 12
Jubilee Walk 2

Millennium Bridge

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Southwark Bridge

Globe Theatre

George Inn

Anchor Pub

Vinopolis

Tooley Street

Borough Market

London Bridge

London Dungeon

Clink Prison Museum

Francis Drake’s Museum

Southwark Cathedral

Hay’s Gallery

HMS Belfast

More London

The Scoop

City Hall

Tower Bridge

B Plan

London Eye
Tower Bridge

 

Route 13
Southbank
The Oval

Vauxhall Bridge
Pimlico

Victoria
Little Ben
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Bridge

Tate Gallery

Millbank

Lambeth Bridge

Lambeth Palace

Garden History

Campbell Road

Imperial War Museum

London Road

Elephant & Castle

Ministry of Sound

B Plan

Tate Gallery

 

 

Route 14

The City

Tower Bridge

St. Katherine’s Way

St. Katherine’s Docks

Tower Hill

Tower Of London
All Hallows At Hill

Tower Gardens

Jack The Ripper

The Gerkhin

The Lloyds’

St. Mary at Hill

The Monument

The Monument Graffiti

London Bridge

Southwark Bridge

The City

Cannon Street

Mansion House

St. Mary Woolnoth

Royal Exchange

Bank

St. Mary Le Bow

St. Stephen Woolbrook

Old Bailey

Mansion House

Bank Of England

Millennium Bridge

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Southwark Bridge

London Bridge

B Plan:

Tower Of London

 

Route 15

Smithfield& Spitalfield

St. Paul’s Cathedral

Fleet Street

Ye Old Cheddar Cheese

Old Bailey

Museum Of London

Holborn Viaduct

Smithfield

London Central Market

St. Bartholomew The Great

Barbican

Shoreditch

London Wall

Moorgate

Finsbury Circus

Brick Lane

Smithfield Markets

Cloth Fair

Petticoat Lane

Petticoat Market

Spitalfield Market

Christchurch in Spitalfield

Bethnal Green

Museum Of Childhood

B Plan:

St. Paul’s Cathedral

 

Route 16

Greenwich

Southwark

Borough

Trinity College

Rotherhithe

Mayflower

Goldsmith College

Thames Tunnel

Docklands Railway

Limehouse

Narrow Street

The Grapes

Canary Wharf

Heron Quays

Foot Tunnel

The Dome

Cutty Sark

Greenwich Park

Greenwich Observatory
Thames Barrier

B Plan:

London Dungeon

 

Route 17

Regent’s Park

Warwick Avenue

Blomfield Avenue

Little Venice

Aberdeen Place

Cocker’s Inn

Canal Way

Regent’s Park

London Zoo

Primrose Hill

Queen Pub

Engels House

Royal House

Yeats House

Fitzroy Road

Camden Lock Market

B Plan

Camden Town

 

 

Route 18
Chelsea

Sloane Square

Holbain Street

Raleigh Gardens

Chelsea Bridge

Battersea Power Station

Battersea Park

Buddhist Place

Albeit Bridge

Cheyne Walk

More Statue

Carlyle Statue

King’s Road

Royal Court Theatre

B Plan

Harrod’s

 

 

 

Route 19
Richmond & Kew

Richmond Green

Richmond Theatre

White Swan Pub

Old Deer Park

Kew Gardens

Botanical Gardens

Syon Park

Kew Palace

B Plan
London Eye

 

 

Route 20
Hampstead

Hampstead Walk
Golders Green
St. Edward The Confessor

B Plan:

Regent’s Park

 

 

Route 21
White City
White City
Putney Bridge

Hammersmith

Apollo Hammersmith
Hammersmith Bridge

Goldhawk

Shepherds’ Bush Market

Shepherds’ Bush

BBC

White City

Wormwood Scrubs
The Scrubs

 

B Plan:
Oxford Street

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Olympic Village

 

Stratford Station

Stratford Park
Olympic Village


 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Visits (or B Plans)

  1. Covent Garden – 01 Trafalgar
  2. Piccadilly Circus – 02 Piccadilly
  3. Trocadero – 02 Piccadilly
  4. Leicester Square – 02 Piccadilly
  5. Trafalgar Square – 02 Piccadilly
  6. National Gallery – 02 Piccadilly
  7. Changing Of The Guards– 03 Buckingham
  8. Buckingham Palace – 03 Buckingham
  9. Hyde Park – 04 Whitehall
  10. Kensington Gardens – 04 Whitehall
  11. Serpentine Boating – 04 Whitehall
  12. Green Park – 04 Whitehall
  13. St. James’s Park – 04 Whitehall
  14. National Gallery – 05 The Strand
  15. Soho – 06 Soho
  16. Carnaby Street – 06 Soho
  17. British Museum – 07 Bloomsbury
  18. Madame Tussaud’s – 08 Marylebone
  19. Portobello Market – 09 Notting Hill
  20. Exhibition Road Museums (History & Natural Science)  – 10 Kensington
  21. Victoria & Albert Museum – 10 Kensington
  22. River Cruise – Jubilee Walk
  23. Tate Modern – 11 Jubilee Walk
  24. Big Ben –  11 Jubilee Walk
  25. Houses Of Parliament – 11 Jubilee Walk
  26. Westminster Abbey – 11 Jubilee Walk
  27. Tower Bridge – 12 Jubilee Walk
  28. The Globe – 12 Jubilee Walk
  29. Tate Gallery – 13 Southbank
  30. Tower Of London – 14 The City
  31. St. Paul’s Cathedral – 15 Smithfiled & Spitalfield
  32. Petticoat Market – 15 Smithfield & Spitalfield
  33. London Dungeon – 16 Greenwich
  34. Camden Town – 17 Regent’s Park
  35. Harrod’s – 18 Chelsea
  36. King’s Road – 18 Chelsea
  37. London Eye – 19 Richmond & Kew
  38. Regent’s Park – 20 Hampstead
  39. Oxford Street – 21 White City

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tour&Walk Week

1. Football Tour

Wembley

Highbury

Finsbury Park

West Ham

Millwall

Tottenham

Crystal Palace

Stanford Bridge

 

 

 

 

2. Rock Tour

Berwick Street Market

Music Exchange

Royal Albert Hall

Hammersmith Apollo

Wembley Arena

Brixton

Acton Town

Shepherd’s Bush

Jimi Hendrix

Freddy Mercury

Hyde Park Stage

Rolling Stones

Abbey Road

Marc Bolan

Hard Rock Café’

(Isle Of Wight)

Earls’ Court

London Coliseum

Royal Albert Hall

Empire

Mc Cartney’s St. John’s Wood

Rolling Stones’ Regent’s Pond
Beatles’ Shop

3. Sightseeing Tour // River Cruises

4. Jack The Ripper Walk

5. Harry Potter Walk

6. Illegal London

7. Docklands Tour

 

 

The Duck Boat Tour

 

 

The Excursion Month

 

The Main Week

01.     Boating On Thames

02.     Thames Barrier

03.     Wimbledon

04.     Hampton Court

05.     Windsor

06.     Stratford-Upon-Avon

07.     Reading

Greater London

08.     West Ham & Millwall

09.     Eastend

10.     Southend

11.     Erith

12.     Acton Town

13.     Ealing

14.     Crystal Palace

15.     Croydon

16.     Clapham

17.     Tooting & Mitcham

18.     Brixton

19.     Streatham

20.     Thornton Heath

21.     Epsom

22.     Epping Forest

23.     Sutton

24.     Turnbridge Wells

25.     Haywards Heath

26.     Crawley

27.     Islington

28.     Enfield Town

29.     Tottenham

30.     Highbury & Finsbury Park

 

 

 

 


 

Trips Out Of Town

 

Off London:

  1. Oxford
  2. Cambridge
  3. Canterbury
  4. Stonehenge
  5. Brighton
  6. Eastbourne
  7. Hastings
  8. Leeds
  9. York
  10. Bath
  11. Salisbury

 

      Further off:

  1. Dover
  2. Bournemouth
  3. Southampton
  4. Isle Of Wight
  5. Liverpool
  6. Manchester
  7. Birmingham
  8. Wales
  9. Isle of Man
  10. Edinburgh
  11. Scotland
  12. Ireland
  13. Belfast
  14. Dublin

 

 


 

NightsOut


 

 

The Theatre Week

01.        Dominion

02.        Her Majesty’s Theatre

03.        Palladium

04.        Garrick Theatre

05.        Hammersmith Apollo

06.        Adelphi Theatre

07.        Novello Theatre

 

 

 

 

The Movie Week

01.        Empire

02.        Trocadero

03.        Prince Of Wales

04.        Camden Palace

05.        Barbican

06.        Apollo

07.        Criterion

 

The Pub Week

01.        The Grapes

02.        The Anchor

03.        Dickens’ Inn

04.        George Inn

05.        Mayflower

06.        Ye Old Cheshire

07.        Ye Old Mitre


The Club Week

01.        Trafalgar Tavern

02.        Sports Café’

03.        Rainforest Café’

04.        Hard Rock Café’

05.        Planet Hollywood

06.        Oxygen

07.        Zoo

08.         

The Disco Week

01.        Fabric

02.        The End

03.        Turnmills

04.        Egg

05.        Ministry Of Sound

06.        Heaven

07.        The Key

08.        The Sound

 

 

 


 

 

 

One Day Trip

In one day you might rather walk all day, istead of getting on & off buses and tubes which is a waste of time and somewhat boring, if you have just one day.

What I suggest is:

 

Walking:

Start from Piccadilly Circus, possibily emerging from Eros’s Statue.
Then go down Leicester Square, Covent Garden, down to the Thames and follow the Jubilee Walk till the City anf the Tower of London. Cross Tower Bridge and go back till Westmisnter, Big Ben and Westminster Abbey.

Go down Whitehall, then The Horseguard, Buckingham Palace and then back through the Mall you’ll emerge in Trafalgar Square.

 

Moving:
You might visit the same things, mostly, but moving via tube gives you a chance to have some stops somewhere; National Gallery and British Museum, though only from the outside, are serious candidates.

 

Three Day Trip

I’ll do the Jubilee Walk in 2 days; one day per bank; which is mostly the 1 day trip multiplied per 2, which allows you to visit, though for a very short time, Covent Garden, The Tate, the National Gallery and possibily take a tour on the London Eye.

I’ll devote the third day to the more prophane Soho, Regent, Oxford Street, Madame Tussauds Hyde Park, Tottenham, British Museum walk / tour.

 

 

One Week Trip

Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 10-11, 12, 14

Doing all the included visits, plus British Museum and Camden Town on a Sat afternoon.

It’s quite hard to complete, but it’s worth the toil.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gita di un giorno

 

In un giorno potrebbe essere preferibile camminare, invece di andare su e giu’ da autobus e dall’underground, che nonostante siano entrambi mezzi estremamente rappresentativi della capitale britannica, possono essere sicuramente poco confortevoli, specie nella stagione calda e, in ogni caso, possono far perdere piu’ tempo di quello che fan guadagnare, specie se si ha poco tempo.

Inoltre Londra, citta’ per ora ancora molto orizzontale, e’ metropoli da girare il piu’ possibile a piedi.

Il mio suggerimento per una lunghissima camminata di un giorno intero che pero’ portera’ a vedere praticamente tutto quello che c’e’ da vedere anche se, ovviamente, senza soste.

Partite da Piccadilly Circus, possibilmente entrando dall’uscita che indica *Eros’s Statue*.
Poi proseguite per Leicester Square, Covent Garden, giu’ verso la riva del  Thames e poi seguite il Jubilee Walk fino alla City ed alla Torre di Londra.
Attraversate Tower Bridge e tornate verso Westminster dove vi aspettano il Big Ben e Westminster Abbey.

Risalite lungo la Whitehall, entrate nella Horseguard, poi fate tutto St.James’s Park finche’ arrivate a Buckingham Palace.

Tornando per il Mall arriverete a Trafalgar Square a due passi da dove avete iniziato il vostro lunghissimo giro.

 

Se invece volete usare qualche mezzo pubblico, potreste dover rinunciare al peraltro bellissimo Jubilee Walk (ve lo sconsiglio!) ma in compenso potrete trovare un paio di mezz’orette per vedere dall’esterno il British Museum e la National Gallery.

 

 

Gita di tre giorni.

 

Io farei il Jubilee Walk in due giorni: sostanzialmente e’ lo stesso percorso del giro di 1 giorno ma diviso in due giornate, il che permette di sostare almeno a Covent Garde, la Tate, la National Gallery e fare un giro sul non indimenticabile ma ormai caratteristico London Eye.

Dedicherei poi la terza giornata al giro dei parchi, giungendo li’ al pomeriggio dopo essere partiti la mattina dal British Museum, Tottenham, Oxford Street, Hyde Park e Kensigton Gardens.

 

Gita di una settimana

 

Seguirei gli itinerary 1, 2, 3, 4, 10-11, 12 e 14
Facendo tutte le visite indicate in grassetto ed aggiungedovi, se possibile, una mattinata al British (non andate di pomeriggio, chiude alle 17!!!) ed un giro a Camden Town di sabato pomeriggio.