La Ciudad Vieja: fuego, Fagin y la horca

Londres, Reino Unido

50 tickets 3 km · aproximadamente 1 h 30 min · 12 paradas · Ruta estándar Cómo funcionan los Walking Tickets

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Este paseo por la City de Londres recorre casi dos mil años de fe, fuego, crimen y leyenda. Desde Reflection Garden y Cannon Street hasta Saint Mary Woolnoth, Old Bailey, Amen Court y Saint Paul’s Cathedral, revela parroquias perdidas, muros de prisión y hitos literarios marcados por el Gran Incendio de 1666. La iglesia y el tribunal dominan la historia, al igual que el espectáculo público de las ejecuciones y la memoria de las iglesias desaparecidas. A lo largo del paisaje de ruinas y recuerdo persisten historias de fantasmas y ecos literarios de autores como Dickens, Blake y Eliot.

Las paradas

01
Reflection Garden
tranquil public pocket park located at 25 Cannon Street
02
Cannon Street
It is the site of the ancient London Stone and gave its name to Cannon Street
03
St Swithin, London Stone
At Saint Swithin, London Stone and the church bring together relic, legend, and civic identity in one place.
04
St. Mary Woolnoth
Designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor and completed in 1727, St. Mary Woolnoth stands at the junction of King William Street and Lombard Street, its unusual twin towers and heavily rusticated stone facade making it one of the most dramatic church…
05
St Mary Colechurch
St Mary Colechurch was a parish church in the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt.
06
St Mary-le-Bow Church
Sir Christopher Wren-designed church, rebuilt after World War 2, whose bells define being Cockney.
07
Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice
The Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice in Postman's Park shifts the walk from formal religion to civic morality, honoring ordinary people who died saving others.
08
Christchurch Greyfriars Church Garden
Open public access to flowery gardens in the ruins of an 18th-century church bombed during WWII.
09
Giltspur Street
Giltspur Street connects Smithfield to Newgate, taking its name from the gilded spurs sold here by medieval saddlers.
10
Old Bailey
The Central Criminal Court, universally known as the Old Bailey, occupies the site of Newgate Prison, London's principal criminal prison from the 12th century until its demolition in 1902-04.
11
Amen Court
Amen Court is a secluded private enclosure reached through an archway off Amen Lane behind St. Paul's Cathedral, lined with a row of 17th and 18th century canons' houses.
12
St. Paul's Cathedral
Christopher Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral was built between 1675 and 1711 to replace the medieval cathedral burned in the Great Fire of 1666.