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The Piccadilly Circus is a place in the center of London, admits particularly by its Eros well and the enormous shining advertisement wall at a wound Eckhaus. To connect it 1819 delighted around regent Street with the shopping street Piccadilly. Due to its central situation in the heart of the west Ends, its proximity to large purchase and entertainment possibilities, and the large traffic veins kreutzen himself here is he a very strongly visited meeting place. The Piccadilly Circus is considered also as tourist attraction. The Londoner defines it as "“navels of the world"”. It is surrounded by many well-known buildings, among other things London Pavilion and the Criterion theatre.

Under the place is the station Piccadilly Circus London Underground.

It is reliably one of the most turbulent places of London.

The name Piccadilly comes from the Halskrausen, which were carried in former times in elevated circles, in order to cover smallpox scars and such a thing.

Only Insider interpret the well figure correctly: It does not place, how often accepted, the dear messenger Eros, but the "“angel of the charity"”

(From Lingen: Welcomely in London)


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