Travel Reference
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TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Whitehall and Westminster
The monuments and buildings in Westminster include some of London's
most famous landmarks - Nelson's Column, Big Ben, the Houses of
Parliament and Westminster Abbey, plus two of the city's top permanent
art collections, the National Gallery and Tate Britain and its finest
architectural set piece, Trafalgar Square. This is one of the easiest parts
of London to walk round, with all the major sights within a mere half-mile
of each other, and linked by one of London's most triumphant - and
atypical - avenues, Whitehall. However, despite the fact the area is a
well-trodden tourist circuit, for the most part there are only a few shops
or cafés and little commercial life (nearby Soho and Covent Garden are
far better for this).
