Location: Knightsbridge
Top Things to do in Knightsbridge
Things to do in London, England: The Best Sights & Landmarks
The crown jewels, Buckingham Palace, Camden Market…in London, history collides with art, fashion, food, and good British ale. A perfect day is different for everyone: culture aficionados shouldn't miss the Tate Modern and the Royal Opera House. If you love fashion, Oxford Street has shopping galore. For foodies, cream tea at Harrod’s or crispy fish from a proper chippy offers classic London flavor. Music and book buffs will love seeing Abbey Road and the Sherlock Holmes Museum (at 221B Baker Street, of course).
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1. Albert Memorial
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4.5 based on 738 reviews
This gigantic bejeweled shrine protects the gilt bronze sculpture of Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, which was designed and executed after the Prince Consort's death in 1861.
Reviewed By lpMaggi713 - Baltimore, United States
The love that Queen Victoria had for Prince Albert was enormous, as evidenced by the large memorial she commissioned in his memory. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha died of typhoid in 1861 at the age of 42. The Albert Memorial sits across from the Royal Albert Hall. It is in Kensington Gardens, which is one of London’s most famous gardens. It was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the Gothic revival style and was completed in 1876, fifteen years after Prince Albert died. It was refurbished between 1994 and 1998 and the Prince Albert statue was re-gilded. The closest Tube stations are High Street Kensington or South Kensington.
2. The London Oratory
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4.5 based on 124 reviews
Reviewed By Windowseatview - London, United Kingdom
Impressive Baroque pastiche church which houses an equally impressive pastiche community of allegedly secular priests. Much posing and posturing on the "traditional Latin" front. Homilies will warn you about the "Demon of tolerance" and "the derangement of transgender". Very odd parish boundaries consisting of two quarters Hyde Park, one quarter Museums, universities, luxury shops and Harrods and one quarter of part time occupied, foreign owned and largely absentee, residential. All you really need to know to get the measure of this place is that here the clerics wash each others' feet on Maundy Thursday. Wonderful choir nevertheless.
3. The Russian Orthodox Church
4. Apsley House
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4.5 based on 744 reviews
Apsley House is internationally famous as the home of the 1st Duke of Wellington and his descendants. As such it is also a memorial to Britain’s triumph over the Napoleonic threat. It is also significant as a restored historic house, a celebration of Regency style, a museum commemorating the 1st Duke and the home of an outstanding collection of decorative and fine art. Perhaps the most important aspect of the interiors at Apsley House is the magnificent collection of fine and decorative arts, formerly part of the collections of the 1st Duke of Wellington. Over 3,000 fine paintings, sculptures, and works or art fashioned in silver, porcelain, porphyry, batons, swords and orders, given to Britain’s greatest military hero by grateful emperors, tsars and kings, are on display. Most notable are: Sculptures by Canova, including the statue of Napoleon originally commissioned from the Italian sculptor by Napoleon himself & paintings acquired by the 1st Duke from the Spanish royal collection.
Reviewed By 227ianc - London, United Kingdom
It's a strange contradiction that Apsley House has a prominent location on Hyde Park Corner that many drivers pass everyday, yet it is relatively unknown for the architectural quality of its interiors and for its impressive art collection, naturally with a strong focus on the 1st Duke of Wellington, but there are portraits here of his successors, including the current Duke. Apsley House is one of the last historic aristocratic London homes remaining in London, with the house built by Robert Adam from 1771-76 for Lord Apsley, hence its name, and further altered and extended by Benjamin Wyatt for the 1st Duke of Wellington in the early 19th century. The art collection is strong in Italian, Dutch and Spanish art and there are many historic items gifted by royal families across Europe after his defeat of Napoleon, so don't miss the Museum with its superb collection. It was good to visit and be reminded of the scale of what there is to see after the recent re-opening. For a full appreciation of the 1st Duke's achievements, you should combine your visit with one to Wellington Arch and also admire the statue of Wellington on his horse Copenhagen and then go to see the memorial statue 'Achilles'. He was a real hero of the time...
5. Queen Caroline Memorial
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
Reviewed By Travelling_SE_Asia - St. Albans, United Kingdom
The Queen Caroline Memorial is a stone urn mounted on a plinth overlooking the east end of the Serpentine Boating Lake in Hyde Park, London, England. Queen Caroline, was the wife of King George II and from 1726-1730 she created what is now known as the Serpentine Boating Lake in Hyde Park and the Long Water in Kensington Gardens. The lake follows the shape of the valley of the Westbourne Stream, which now flows underground. The Queen Caroline Memorial was unveiled by Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
6. Chelsea
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4.0 based on 170 reviews
A neighborhood in London that is known for King's Road and Carnaby Street in Soho, which formed the center of "Swinging London" in the Sixties.
Reviewed By gkw09 - Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affluent, sophisticated and easy on the eye, Chelsea is a pretty area of London near to Hyde Park, South Kensington and Knightsbridge. It’s widely known as one of London’s safest and most desirable places to live. We stayed at a hotel off Bayswater, one street from Hyde Park and surrounded by large and glamorous town houses. A lovely experience.
7. Knightsbridge
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4.0 based on 274 reviews
Sandwiched between Kensington, Belgravia and Mayfair, this is one of the most exclusive and pricey areas in London known for up-scale shops and restaurants.
Reviewed By sandbetwenmytoes - London, United Kingdom
Knightsbridge is home to Harrods, Harvey Nichols and high end designer stores in nearby Sloane Street. If in need of a luxury shopping fix, this is a wonderful area to visit. Harrods and nearby Harvey Nichols offer an upmarket shopping experience in unique department store settings. Sloane Street offers international designers for mcludimg Chanel, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Versace, Armani, Dior, Pucci, Gucci, Cartier, Tiffany & Co and many more. Beauchamp Place is home to small boutiques and restaurants, ranging from Lebanese, Italian, Japanese, Thai, and Russian. Knightsbridge is not all about luxury designer fashion, there are well known high street brand names, such as Zara and Top Shop. A ten minute walk from Harrods, there is the V and A museum, and a few minute fro m the V and are the Natural History Museum and The Science Museum with plenty of cafes nearby.
8. Sloane Street
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4.0 based on 72 reviews
If you have to ask the price, don't shop here: this street is lined with up-scale and pricey shops and fine dining venues.
Reviewed By cacheswick - Rome, Italy
Expensive shops. Locally based and chain. Yummy restaurants and King Tut at the Saatchi Museum made for a great day.
9. Harrods
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4.0 based on 19,399 reviews
Harrods remains at the height of British luxury retail, attracting millions of loyal customers from across the globe with its unrivalled product selection, world-class service, innovative retail theatre and historic setting. The store was opened in 1849 by Charles Henry Harrod as an expansion of his humble East End grocery and tea business. Today, it is one of the most distinguished names in the world. Seven floors and 330 departments showcase the best of luxury merchandise, from high-end fashion and accessories to the finest homewares and the latest technology. There are 28 restaurants in-store; we continue to enhance our portfolio with Galvin Demoiselle, Bentley's Sea Grill, and the institution that is The Georgian. Customers enjoy a wealth of exclusive services, such as By Appointment Personal Shopping and The Penthouse, a private suite dedicated to unsurpassed bespoke service in a beautiful environment. Other departments include the Urban Retreat at Harrods spa, a theatre ticket bureau, and The Studio, the store's interior-design service. Qatar Holding acquired the business in 2010, and it continues to guide - and invest strongly in - the store according to its philosophy: Anything is possible. Harrods continuously seeks to surpass the desires and expectations of its customers, staying true to its original motto: Omnia omnibus ubique (everything for everyone, everywhere). Harrods is located on Brompton Road, near the Knightsbridge London Underground station.
Reviewed By 572aliceh - Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Beautiful Knightsbridge shop with everything anyone could possibly ever want, we loved the Christmas shop and the designer mega brands throughout. Godiva chocolate cafe is just delicious ( we had milk chocolate sin cake) chocolate heaven. Only minutes fron Knightsbridge station
