Guildhall

This day found us at Guildhall, the ceremonial and administrative center of the City of London.  Beneath the Guildhall Art Gallery lies the ruins of ancient Londinium's Roman Amphitheater, the largest in Britannia; unfortunately, access to the site is currently restricted.  We also visited nearby Bunhill Fields, the burial place of the literary luminaries John Bunyan, Daniel Defoe, and William Blake.

Guildhall.  The art gallery is on the right.

La Ghirlandata, 1873, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

The Wife of Jeroboam and the Blind Prophet,
1888, by George Henry Grenville Manton

The Betrothed, 1892, by John William Godward

Isabella, 1848, by John Everett Millais

Charles, Prince of Wales, 1969
by sculptor David Wynne

Illustration of the Roman settlement of Londinium as it looked about AD 50.
The amphitheater, upon which Guildhall sits, is at center.

Discovered by archaeologists in 1988, the amphitheater accommodated up to
6000 spectators for public events, including executions and
gladiator combat. 

The Ninth of November, 1888, by William Logsdail

Bunhill Fields resting place of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress.

Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe

William Blake, artist, poet & mystic