SIGHTS IN LONDON - London 2015 - page 100

Cost and Hours: £ 10, daily 9:30-18:00, last entry at least 30 minutes before closing,
expect to wait 15 minutes or more, large gift shop for Holmes connoisseurs, Tube: Baker
Street, tel. [phone], www.sherlock-holmes.co.uk .
The City
When Londoners say “The City,” they mean the one-square-mile business center in East
London that 2,000 years ago was Roman Londinium. The outline of the Roman city walls
can still be seen in the arc of roads from Blackfriars Bridge to Tower Bridge. Within The
City are 23 churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren, mostly just ornamentation around
St. Paul's Cathedral. Today, while home to only 7,000 residents, The City thrives with
nearly 300,000 office workers coming and going daily. It's a fascinating district to wander
on weekdays, but since almost nobody actually lives there, it's dull in the evenings and on
Saturday and Sunday.
See The City Walk chapter.