The Tower of London to St Paul's: A City of London Walking Tour

Name: The Tower of London to St Paul's: A City of London Walking Tour
Brand: City Balloon Tours
SKU: 1344276
Price: 25.88 GBP
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Rating: 4.50 (16 reviews)

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2 hours (approx.)

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Offered in: English

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Overview

Most visitors to London head straight for Westminster and Big Ben — and walk right past the square mile where the city actually began. This tour is different: it stays in the historic City of London, tracing two thousand years of history in a single compact walk, from a surviving stretch of Roman wall to the dome of St Paul's.

What sets it apart is the layering. On one small patch of ground you'll stand where Roman Londinium's forum once buzzed, where medieval traitors lost their heads, where the Great Fire reshaped a city, and where the modern financial world still turns. Your local guide ties it all together — the fortresses and executions, the hidden lanes and the dark secrets — in a small, friendly group that can slip into corners the crowds never reach.

What you'll see:
Roman wall, Tower Hill
Tower of London
Tower Bridge
London Bridge
The Monument
Leadenhall Market
Royal Exchange
Bank of England
Mansion House & Guildhall
St Paul's Cathedral

What's Included

Small-group experience
Professional guide

Hotel pickup and drop off
Gratuities

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London
UK

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End point

St. Paul's Churchyard
London EC4M 8AD, UK

Your Old City Tour usually finishes near St. Paul's Cathedral, a 25-min walk away from the starting point of the tour. There are MANY great options for food and drinks in the area after your tour, and your guide will be happy to share their favorites.

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citizenM Tower of London hotel

Meet your guide at the entrance to the CitizenM Tower of London hotel, beside Tower Hill Station, where nearly two thousand years of history rise from the ground beneath your feet. This is where London began.Your guide sets the scene at Tower Hill, where a surviving stretch of the ancient Roman wall still marks the edge of Londinium, the settlement founded by the Romans around AD 50 on the banks of the Thames. From this river port grew the square mile that would become the City of London — a place with its own laws, customs and fierce independence.Standing between the Roman past and the modern towers of finance, your guide introduces the walk ahead: royal fortresses and executions, fire and plague, trade and empire, and the hidden lanes where the City's oldest stories still linger.

15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Tower of London

We arrive at the Tower of London, the great stone fortress on the Thames begun by William the Conqueror nearly a thousand years ago to dominate his newly conquered city.Your guide unfolds its many lives: royal palace, armoury, treasury and, most notoriously, prison. Within these walls, queens and traitors met their end — Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard among those executed on the orders of Henry VIII — while the ravens, by legend, still guard the kingdom's fate. Here too the Crown Jewels are kept, the dazzling regalia of the British monarchy.Your guide brings the fortress to life with tales of imprisonment, escape and execution, and the Yeoman Warders who have guarded it for centuries. Few buildings hold so much of England's history — and so many of its darkest secrets — behind a single set of walls.

15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

Tower Bridge

A short walk brings us to the river's edge, with Tower Bridge rising ahead — its twin Gothic towers and blue suspension chains among the most recognisable sights in the world.Your guide explains how this stretch of the Thames was the lifeblood of London: the tidal highway that carried goods, ships and people, and made the City one of the greatest trading ports on earth. Completed in 1894, Tower Bridge was an engineering marvel of its age, its bascules still lifting to let tall vessels pass beneath.It's also simply one of the finest viewpoints in London, where the ancient Tower, the modern skyline and the working river all meet. Your guide pauses here to take in the panorama and trace how the Thames shaped the city's fortunes for two thousand years.

15 minutes Admission Ticket Free

London Bridge

We continue to London Bridge, the oldest river crossing in the city and, for centuries, the only one — a place woven deep into London's history and its nursery rhymes alike.Your guide tells its long and dramatic story: the Roman timber bridge, the famous medieval stone bridge crowded with houses, shops and even a chapel, and the grim custom of displaying the severed heads of traitors on its southern gate. That old bridge stood for more than six hundred years before being replaced, and its successors have carried Londoners across the water ever since.Standing at this ancient crossing point, your guide explains how the bridge shaped the growth of the City on one bank and Southwark on the other — and why "London Bridge is falling down" carries echoes of very real history.