Saturday, February 17, 2007

Roman City Walk

I went on the guided walk about the ancient Roman city of Londonium, roughly the square mile of the City of London today. Most of the Roman bits of the city are not visible, they are about forty feet underneath the existing city. Still it was neat to know where everything was located as compared to the locations of buildings and sites today. My pictures actually make it seem like I was on a Wren tour as we went by several of his churches.


A portion of the old Roman wall(the part visible in the photo is actually medieval)
The Guildhall of London, you can see the 15th century part with later additions. Located on the site of a former Roman amphitheater(you can still see it if you go inside, I didn't get a chance to)

The steeple of St. Mary-le bow, a Wren church


St. Lawrence Jewry, another Wren church


St. Anne and St. Agnes church, yet another Wren church


The Monument built by Wren to commerate the Great Fire of 1666


Site of a former church that has the same name as Twitlet (Well, a bit of a stretch, but Ian is Scottish for John)



Alvie the dog, he came with us on the walk, though was more interested in chasing pigeons!!