WHAT A LONDON TOURIST GUIDE IS ALL ABOUT

A London Tourist Guide is a website dedicated to providing you with all the information you seek, as it guides you through the Tourist Attractions in London and all that statement means.

These attractions are comprised not just of their visible attributes, although this in itself is worth the visit. Within them they contain everything that London ever was and what it still is today.

Think of Queen Elizabeth 1 or Queen Mary I of England who has been immortalized by history in naming her Bloody Mary. So, empty your minds of mundane day to day matters for a few hours and instead fill them with sublime moments, as you really discover what lies within the Tourist Attractions in London, the Capital City of the United Kingdom and one of the greatest cities on Earth.

Whether your search for knowledge is just out of pure interest, or if you plan to have a vacation here, A-London-tourist-Guide will help you to discover exactly what London is, how it came about and who the people were who helped to forge it into what it has become today.

Since the Romans came, London has had a long and chequered career. A-London-Tourist-Guide, will try to cover as well as it is able to, the triumphs and tragedies, the city has witnessed since it's beginning, until the present day. Certainly, London has a very colourful history, one that all of its' citizens should cherish and be very proud of, but that is not all it can claim. Nowadays it is a Cosmopolitan Metropolis, welcoming people from around the Globe. There are over three hundred languages spoken by it's diverse population.

It is home to some of the most famous Department Stores in the world. The London theatreland is second to none, surpassing even it's nearest rival, New York, in that department and by quite some distance.

It has a great variety of Hotels in which to stay, fairly cheap but comfortable ones, to some of the most luxurious reasonably priced 5 star hotels that can be found anywhere.

When planning a trip to London, the first thing anyone should do, is to check the availability of hotel rooms for their preferred dates of visit.

To do this,visit A-London-Tourist-Guide, Hotels Price Comparison Page and compare the different Hotel Rates and Availability, in the location or locations you wish to stay.

London, has produced and been home to, more famous people, including, scientists, writers, actors, entertainers, or any other 'ers,'ors and ists, we could mention. All in all, it is a great city both to visit or to live in.

It is hoped that you will find what you are looking for in A-London-Tourist-Guide.

Start by learning the unrivalled history of London, from the Roman invasion, which is the generally accepted date of the City's foundation. The death of Edward the Confessor, which led to the Norman invasion and subsequent Battle of Hastings, fought between the Anglo Saxons under Harold Godwinson, and the Norman invaders commanded by William Duke of Normandy.

How the victory of the latter led to the construction of the Tower of London and the imposition of Norman Rule which, although it did not have the massive impact on Western Civilization that the Roman conquests had, it most certainly had a very significant influence on the development of the nation into what it has become today.

A-London-Tourist-Guide, takes you through the Medieval Times in London Learn about England's Medieval Kings. Become a member of one of the Medieval Guilds as you witness the construction of Westminster Abbey, The Tower of London, St.Pauls Cathedral London, St. Bartholomew the Great, and the strange mystical experience encountered by Rahere the monk which led to its foundation. The great London Monasteries and Temple Church where you will meet the Order of the Knights Templar.

Continue following events as they unfold, through the Bubonic Plague, known as the Black Death.

The Wars of the Roses, which was the Civil War fought between the Royal Houses of Lancaster and York and which came to an end with the defeat of King Richard III by Henry Tudor (with tremendous support and meticulous planning by his mother, the remarkable Margaret Beaufort) at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

The victor was crowned King Henry VII, starting one of the most powerful ruling dynastic families that England has had, The Tudors.

The Above is a family portrait of The Tudors with the exception of King Henry VII. In it are from left to right: Mother Jak (thought to be the wet nurse of Edward)Mary Tudor, Edward Tudor, King Henry VIII, Jane Seymour, Elizabeth Tudor and William Sommers (Court Jester).

Learn about The Tudors. Henry VIII, His sister Mary Tudor, His daughter Queen Mary I of England, Henry VIII's wives, Lady Jane Grey, Queen Elizabeth 1, and how Medieval London emerged from the middle ages into the glorious age of the renaissance period.

Witness the Great Fire of London. Dicover the conditions which enabled it to take hold and spread so rapidly without any chance of containing it.

Be there from the start of The Great Fire of London in Pudding Lane and live through the firestorm until it is finally extinguished four days later, with the resultant unimaginable destruction and untold misery it left in it's wake.

Follow the rebirth of London in the London Churches section of A-London-tourist-guide. It takes you inside these wonderful creations of Christopher Wren and his assistants, the brilliant Natural Philosopher, Scientist and Architect Robert Hooke and of course Nicholas Hawkesmoor.

London Churches can rightfully be included among the Main Tourist Attractions in London along with the other giants covered in A-London-Tourist-Guide, such as, The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey etc. and so they should be, for these beautiful buildings are worth a place on any visitors Must See list.

Some of these Churches have interesting connections with the United States of America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Movement had it's beginnings in one of them.

So why don't you go along and visit them, but don't forget to take your camera.

A-London-Tourist-Guide, brings you some of its favourite quotations:

"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." — Samuel Johnson

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day. - Walter Besant, on his deathbed, June 1901

"Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crowded together, that the wonderful immensity of London consists." -Samuel Johnson,

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