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Piccadilly Circus is one of London's most popular tourist destination .Sit by the famous statue of Eros (a popular meeting point), or take some photos in front of the iconic advertising screens. From this location, you can easily walk to Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Shaftesbury Avenue or Regent Street.
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Piccadilly Circus is one of the most famous intersections on the planet, and it is estimated that nearly 100 million people walk through Piccadilly Circus each year.
EditThe name 'Piccadilly' originates from a seventeenth-century frilled collar named a piccadil. The word 'Circus' refers to the roundabout around which the traffic circulated.
EditYes, Piccadilly is just under 1 mile (1.6 km) in length, and it is one of the widest and straightest streets in central London.
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Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly. In this context, a circus, from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction. The Circus now connects Piccadilly, Regent Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, the Haymarket, Coventry Street (onwards to Leicester Square) and Glasshouse Street. It is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in the West End.
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Piccadilly Circus is surrounded by tourist attractions, including the Shaftesbury Memorial, Criterion Theatre, London Pavilion and retail stores. Nightclubs, restaurants and bars are located in the area and neighbouring Soho, including the former Chinawhite club.
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Piccadilly Circus station, which sits under Piccadilly Circus itself, is one of the only stations on the network to exist entirely underground. When it was built in 1906, a surface level ticket office existed, but when the station was revamped in the 1920s, it was demolished. The station building is Grade II listed.
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