Cinemas are plentiful, with many famous people premieres happening most weeks. For listings of shows, as well as night clubs, concerts and other events check out the weekly London listings magazine, Time Out. Read the rest of this entry…

Art Galleries in London are distinctly dissimilar or unlike verying from the well recognized (National Gallery, Tate Britain), to the more new improvers (Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery), to thousands of independent galleries dispersed all over London East End Galleries. Read the rest of this entry…

There are excess of options for high culture lovers from the Royal Opera House and the Royal Albert Hall through to hundreds of west-end (and periphery) theatres showing big name acts filled with celebrities. Read the rest of this entry…

For contemporary art East End has launched London as major contemporary art scene in the world together with New York and Berlin, and become the most popular artistic target for visitors, dealers, artists with lots of small, renowned and independent art galleries. Read the rest of this entry…

London has a vast selection of museums extended from specialist museums covering design, public
transport, science, natural history, maritime, typography, fashion to
big collections of antiquity such as British Museum and V&A containing
huge accumulations from all over the world. Read the rest of this entry…

The name London comes from the Latin name Londinium, as London was founded by the Romans during their reign over the island  although there is some slight evidence of pre-Roman settlement. The BBC History website, however, claims that the name Londinium is actually “Celtic, not Latin, and may originally have referred to a previous farmstead on the site”. Read the rest of this entry…

For music fans in London, there are literally thousands of bars and clubs all across the city. Major concentration is around the West End and Soho, also a new home to a booming gay scene. Usually tourists get around the brightness of Leicester Square, but there are equally good, if not better bars outside the centre, around suburbs such as Shoreditch in the East, Islington in the North, Notting Hill in the West or Clapham in the South. Read the rest of this entry…