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Who will dare to complain that the hotels and restaurants of London can be expensive? No other city in the world offers many free activities: world-class museums, parks, walks along the canal, great markets (Portobello Road Market in Notting Hill Gate, Camden Market, Chalk Farm Rd in the wonderful Columbia Road Flower Market, in Gosset Street, east of London, etc.), plus possibly some royal heads to spot. Enough to occupy a lifetime. Thank you London. Below is a small selection of these free activities.
1 Borough Market
Populated by gourmets, Borough Market, in operation since about the thirteenth century, is everything you need to make up a memorable breakfast or packed lunch. One of the key attractions in the south of the Thames. Open Thursday to Saturday (go on Saturday: the market is at its best day).
2 Mediatheque British Film Institute
Nestled in the shadow of Waterloo Bridge, the institute has four cinemas (fee) and a great library, where you can consult the archives and watch movies for free.
3 British Museum
Unreal this museum, one of the key attractions of London, is completely free when I was in London, I would sometimes spend twenty minutes, the time to admire the Rosetta Stone, and I resumed my journey. keeping the "Lindow Man" (a wretch the first century found in 1984 in a bog, their skulls crushed), an Aztec mosaic mask and seven million other items for a later visit. Do not miss the Eyeopener tours, lasting 20 and 50 minutes, offered free of charge as well.
4 Houses of Parliament
The Palace of Westminster, home of "Big Ben" (or Clock Tower), is a neo-Gothic wonder from the mid-nineteenth century. There is no shortage of "rooms" - of Commons (House of Commons) and Lords (House of Lords). Book in time to attend a few exchanges of pleasantries during parliamentary sessions.
5 Museum of London
Unknown to most tourists, the museum is yet one of the major attractions of the capital. It offers a stroll through the various historical chapters in London, the geological profile of the Thames Valley to the Anglo-Saxon era, through the bankers of the twenty-first century. Do not forget the lovely cafe housed in his garden.
6 National Gallery
With its 2,000 Western European paintings, signed including Van Gogh, Renoir, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, the National Gallery is an artistic rendezvous weight. Each year more than 5 million visitors come through the doors of this building in Trafalgar Square. Avoid the rush by scheduling as Londoners your visit on weekday mornings or Wednesday evenings (after 18h). Anyway, regardless of the day is always free.
7. National Maritime Museum
# 1 attraction in Greenwich, this neoclassical building is more interesting and entertaining as they are not immersed. The museum focuses on the maritime history of Britain, including the bullet that felled Admiral Nelson, a replica of the canoe to rescue Ernest Shackleton, and amount of interactive activities for children in Your Exposure Ocean.
8. National Portrait Gallery
Before Google and Wikipedia, it is here that the English had to put faces to the names of celebrities. A few blocks north of the National Gallery, St Martin's Pl, you will see paintings and sculptures, including the portrait of the Queen signed Andy Warhol.
9. Natural History Museum
In Victorian times, we certainly liked to collect and catalog. The result is this extravagant collection of natural species, set in a delightful neo-Gothic building from 1880 A skeleton of Diplodocus stands guard at the entrance. Further, there is a T-Rex or the Darwin Centre, with 450,000 jars filled with formaldehyde specimens. The Wildlife Garden is only open from April to September.
10. Photographers' Gallery
This wonderful collection of contemporary photography in the West End, is a new space on two levels - at the spot where the gallery is installed since 2008 The venue also holds great coffee.
11 Science Museum
Wonderfully informative and entertaining, the Science Museum has seven floors of interactive exhibits. The Energy Hall features the first steam locomotives of the early nineteenth century. Popular with children, exhibits include the third floor of old gliders, hot air balloons and flight simulators.
12. Serpentine Gallery
This gallery-like teahouse 1930s style, nestled in the leafy Kensington Gardens is a delightful place to enjoy one of the finest contemporary art collections of modern London. Among the artists on display include including Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons. Huge windows diffuse abundant natural light. Each year a new "summer house" is open nearby, from May to October. It hosts film screenings and outdoor readings.
13 Sir John Soane's Museum
John Soane's house in the West End, is one of the most fascinating and unknown to the British capital sites. It houses the personal effects and other curiosities of this architect of the nineteenth century, the son of a bricklayer. The house is largely as Soane left it at his death in 1837, sketches of Christopher Wren to the lantern room, through the slave chains. Try to go on the first Tuesday of the month, when the museum is lit by candlelight.
14. St Paul's Church
Not to be confused with St. Paul's Cathedral (major site accompanied by a ticket), the church on the west side of the square of Covent Garden is nicknamed "the actors' church". The first puppet show was given in 1662 just before Inside, there is a commemorative plaque in honor of Charlie Chaplin and Vivien Leigh, the famous Southern heroine (albeit British) Gone with the wind of.
15. Tate Britain
In the Tate family (modern offspring moved further north in 2000), Tate Britain does not play the role of big sister old Thurs Here the permanent collections focus on the masterpieces of the British painting of the sixteenth to the late twentieth century. Watch the one-hour guided tours and presentations of 15 minutes around a painter or a painting - all for the modest sum of zero pence.
16. Tate Modern
Speaking of the modern half of the Tate, located in a trendy setting in the heart of an old Bankside power station, along the Thames, is one of the most popular sites in the city. If temporary exhibits cost $ 8 at £ 10, you can spend hours in front of some 60,000 works (Pollock, Warhol, Rodin, Matisse, etc.) from the permanent collection (free), divided into single thematic exhibitions such as " Poetry & Dream "(poetry and dreams) for the surreal section. The building is amazing and coffee upstairs offers a great view of the Thames.
17. Temple Church
Fans of The Da Vinci Code - and they are many - have made the church of the twentieth century a London obligatory passage for the role it plays in a key scene in the novel. This characteristic place built by the monk soldiers of the Knights Templar, is an oasis of green space protected from traffic, amid the skyscrapers of the City.
18. Victoria & Albert Museum
With a fund of 4.5 million objects - as this striking glass chandelier by Dale Chihuly - the institution opened in 1852 is simply the finest museum of decorative arts in the world. Make sure you have some time on your hands. The first level is devoted to Asian art (Japanese swords, ancient Chinese ceramics) and European, such as plaster casts used by Michelangelo for his David. Also include a collection of large photographs of some 500,000 photographs, collected over the 160 years of the museum. Housed in the Jameel Gallery, on the Middle East, the Ardabil carpet, Iranian masterpiece of early sixteenth century, is one of the oldest carpets in the world.
19. Wallace Collection
Probably the best small art gallery in London, far from the usual tourist circuits, the Wallace Collection takes us with delight in the aristocratic life of the eighteenth century. Housed in a sumptuous restored Italianate style, it houses much art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Splendid - unless of course you are already lived in a place like this.
20. Whitechapel Gallery
This institution, which houses ten galleries in an Art Nouveau building opened in 1899, combines thematic exhibitions of established artists and revelations. This is where Picasso's Guernica was exhibited for the first time in 1939 Watch concerts, lectures and films on Thursday or Friday, or drop by the coffee super design time for a break.
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