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A traditional place to meet beneath huge illuminated advertising billboards with the slim Statue of Eros made from aluminium in the middle, erected in 1892 to commemorate the life of Lord Shaftesbury. The angel with the arrow symbolises the Angel of Christian Charity.
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Welcome to the center of the world! 'Piccadilly Circus' is a famous road junction and a public square in London's West End. It was completed in 1819 to connect Regent Street and Piccadilly. 'Piccadilly Circus' joins the 'Shaftesbury Avenue', the 'Haymarket', 'Coventry Street' (direction 'Leicester Square'), 'Regent Street' and 'Lower Regent Street', the 'Piccadilly' and a small side street, the 'Glasshouse Street. The Circus is located near many shopping and entertainment areas. The fact that it is a hub of some of the most important streets of London makes him a lively meeting place. During the period of colonization and the great "British Empire" was Piccadilly Circus often referred to as the "center of the world". My tip: Use a paper cup full of tea in hand at the 'Eros' (Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain), sitting quietly enjoying the scenery on the road 'center of the world' and let it sprinkle of the advertising messages of the giant screen. Tea drink and dive in, Soho '.
I immediately had to think of New York's Times Square when visiting it
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picadilly's name comes from pickadils a kind of rigid collars worn by the ladies of the eighteenth century as a supplement. Robert Baker became rich by selling pickadils and built a luxurious house in the area to which the British referred to as picaddilly hall as a joke.
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