Covent Garden Piazza
A historic square that holds the old Market Building, with market stalls, shops and street performers playing in front of St Paul's Church, the Actors' Church.
- Landmark
- Price: Free
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Did you know
The earliest record of street entertainment here is in Samuel Pepys's diary for 1662, which notes a marionette show featuring Punch on the piazza.
Local tip
The biggest acts play on the West Piazza in front of St Paul's Church, and you can stop for ten minutes or stay all day. For classical musicians, go inside the Market Building to the South Wells.
Finding it
- Address
- St Clement Danes, Covent Garden, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, WC2E 8AA
- Nearest station
- Covent Garden (Tube), 172 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Royal Opera HouseCovent Garden's home of The Royal Opera and The Royal Ballet, with a Victorian glass-roofed hall that anyone can walk into for a drink or a look.
- London Transport MuseumA museum tracing 200 years of London's public transport, from horse-drawn buses to Tube trains, in a former Victorian flower market building.
- RulesLondon's oldest restaurant, open since 1798, serving classic British game, oysters, pies and puddings among walls covered in vintage drawings, paintings and cartoons.
- The Lamb & FlagA snug pub tucked down an alley off Garrick Street, one of the oldest drinking spots in Covent Garden.