Visit to Covent Garden's Apple Market to see the street performers.
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3888 x 2592 px | 32.9 x 21.9 cm | 13 x 8.6 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
9 August 2010Location:
Covent Garden, London, England, UKMore information:
Covent Garden is a district in London, England, located on the eastern fringes of the West End, between St. Martin's Lane and Drury Lane. The area is mainly associated with the former fruit and vegetable market located in the central square which is now a popular shopping and tourist site, and the Royal Opera House, which is also known as "Covent Garden". The area is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre; north of which is mainly given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers, and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum. The fruit and vegetable market began as a small open air market to the south of the fashionable square around 1654. Gradually, both the market and the area became disreputable with taverns, theatres, coffee-houses and prostitutes; and the gentry began to move away, and rakes, wits and playwrights moved in. The central building re-opened as a shopping centre in 1980, and is now a popular tourist location containing cafes, pubs, small shops and a craft market called the Apple Market; along with another market held in the Jubilee Hall.