20 March 2019 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, London
Reading Time: 6 minutesSerpentine Gallery © Mark Ahsmann/cc-by-sa-3.0
Kensington is a district in the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in
West London. The district’s commercial heart is
Kensington High Street, running on an east-west axis. The north east is taken up by
Kensington Gardens, containing the
Albert Memorial, the
Serpentine Gallery and
Speke‘s monument.
South Kensington is home to
Imperial College London, the
Royal College of Music and the
Royal Albert Hall. The area is also home to many European embassies.
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8 June 2016 | Author/Destination: Great Britain / Großbritannien | Rubric: General, London, Museums, Exhibitions, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks
Reading Time: 6 minutesAlbertopolis © Andreas Praefcke
Albertopolis is the nickname given to the area centred on
Exhibition Road in
London, named after
Prince Albert, spouse of
Queen Victoria. It contains a large number of educational and cultural sites. It is in
South Kensington, split between the
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the
City of Westminster (the border running along
Imperial College Road), and the area bordered by
Cromwell Road to the south and
Kensington Road to the north. The closest tube station is
South Kensington, linked to the museums by a tiled tunnel beneath Exhibition Road constructed in 1885. The tunnel originally continued as a covered route to the south porch of the Royal Albert Hall via a second tunnel, subsequently used for a period as Imperial College’s shooting range, emerging into the arcades and conservatory of the former gardens of the
Royal Horticultural Society.
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