London travel guide with information on hotels and restaurants.

It is said that "if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city (London), 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." (Boswell) London, capital of England and the United Kingdom, can be said to be the very epitome of civilization and evolution, a triumph of brains over matter, of raison d être over impulse. London

Should you be one of the many holiday makers who are planning a London vacation, in that case there is a number of things that you need to be acquainted with before checking the list of reasonably priced flights to London. Needless to say that an exhaustive understanding of what London is requires knowledge of all the qualities that make up its nature as well as a full understanding of all historical developments. For some, London brings together all the vices, as well as all the virtues of humanity, that is why it has been blamed as often as it has been praised. For others, the fog and the damp weather – which have developed into a whole fashion industry, or the Stock Exchange - which provides a highly active and efficient market for trading, are just a few of the brand names that inexorably go with London.

A Roman Londinium at first, London had become a walled city by the second century and, little by little, by the 11th century it had already extended beyond the walls to link with the originally separate Westminster and to become the main city of England. Throughout the 19th century, London was already the largest city in the world (in population).

From Saxon times the Port of London dominated the Thames from Tower Bridge to Tilbury and its bustle is now centred outside Greater London, the metropolitan area, and downstream Tilbury. The City of London is a sure place to set things in motion: branded as the square mile, this is the financial and commercial centre of the UK. The different industries which have been growing here, as well as the plentiful recording, broadcasting, television, and film studios, the publishing companies or the agency of the national press are hard enough evidence that things start here and go on in Greater London.