Home to one of the world’s busiest and important financial districts in the world, this area also boasts some of London’s most treasured and oldest attractions. Daily commuters swell the daytime population but the City lures increasing amounts of overnight visitors also with some fabulous restaurants, legendary markets and its wealth of cobbled history, all of which you will find in gastronomic Borough, the spiritual home of Jamie Oliver.

As is the case so often in London, an area’s character turns in a street corner, and thus the City rubs shoulders with two of the capital’s most artistic quartiers, Hoxton and Shoreditch, bywords for progressive culture and dilated pupils, home to the famed works of a generation of young British artists including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.