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Covent Garden Piazza Review
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Covent Garden Piazza
- Address: Covent Garden, London, WC2 | Map It
- Category: Squares
- Location: Covent Garden
Fodor's Review:
The 1840 market building around which Covent Garden pivots is known as the Piazza. Inside, the shops are mostly higher-class clothing chains, plus a couple of cafés and some knickknack stores that are good for gifts. There's the superior Apple Market for crafts on most days, too. If you turn right, you'll reach the indoor Jubilee Market, which, with its stalls of clothing, army surplus gear, and more crafts and knickknacks, is disappointingly ordinary. In summer it may seem that everyone you see around the Piazza (and the crowds are legion) is a fellow tourist, but there's still plenty of office life in the area. Londoners who shop in the area tend to head for Neal Street and the area to the left of the subway entrance rather than the touristy market itself. By the church in the square, street performers -- from global musicians to jugglers and mimes -- play to the crowds, as they have done since the first English Punch and Judy Show, staged here in the 17th century.
- Tube: Covent Garden
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