On
a beautiful sunny winter day we went for a walk at Covent Garden.
Covent Garden is one of the oldest markets from the late 1600s until
the 1970s in London.
It functioned as a vegetable and fruit market.
Because of the Great Fire of London in 1666, all the rival commercial
centres were destroyed in the city, so Covent Garden has become the
most important commercial centre of the country.
It was the
"vegetable garden" of the Westminster area. The market and
its surroundings became one of London's famous red-light quarter in
the 18th century. Nowadays Covent Garden is a tourist attraction,
there is a huge crowd day and night.
The shops sell souvenirs for
visitors and you can buy craft products at a high price on the old
Apple Market.
Covent Garden is the only one area in London where
it's officially allowed to perform for street entertainers.
The
central square is overlooking the London Transport Museum
and the
back entrance of the Royal Opera House.
This
area has many cafés, pastry shops, sandwich bars and small
restaurants, where you can go to eat something and rest a little.
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