The City now…
It is the events, people and deeds these celebrate that help to make the City’s attractions unique. From All Hallows church where diarist Samuel Pepys watched the Great Fire of London to Wren’s towering Monument which commemorates it; from the house where Doctor Johnson compiled the first-ever English dictionary to his statue in St Paul’s Cathedral; and from that same Cathedral – where Charles and Diana wed and Nelson and Wellington lay buried to St Bartholomew-the-Great – the church where scenes from Shakespeare in Love and Four Weddings and a Funeral were shot.
Museums, exhibitions and galleries abound here, and the treasures they contain enthral and amaze. Stand in awe under John Singleton Copley’s The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, 1782 – one of the UK’s largest oils spanning two floors of Guildhall Art Gallery, experience breathtaking views from the walkways inside Tower Bridge or hold a real gold bar at the Bank of England Museum.
From smaller collections like that of the Bank’s or the ancient timepieces at the Clockmakers’ Museum to Europe’s largest urban history museum – the Museum of London – the City’s, and London’s past, are celebrated, as are the time-honoured professions that have helped push the City to the forefront of the international business world.