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Covent Garden
A lively piazza around an old market hall, with street performers, shops and the Royal Opera House.
- Open
- Always; shops and stalls by day
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Covent Garden Piazza, London WC2E 8RFDirections
- Getting There
- Covent Garden or Leicester Square station.
Why Go
London's fruit and flower market moved out in 1974, and its 1830s market hall now holds shops, cafés and stalls. Performers draw crowds on the piazza in front of St Paul's Church, the actors' church.
The Royal Opera House and the London Transport Museum are on the square, and the theaters of the West End are all around.
Nearby in London
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