The area known as the City of London is the oldest part of the capital and the centre of the UK's huge and important financial industry. This walk explores the City's heart and visits many points of interest associated this area's long history: when the Romans first developed London as their capital; the legacy left by the Great Fire in 1666; and the modern-day towers slowly changing the City's profile.

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This walk visits leafy Bloomsbury, once a fashionable district for the well-to-do. Now it is dominated by the British Museum and the University College London, whose footprints have altered but not erased its residential past.

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