South Bank to Tower Bridge
From the London Eye through Tate Modern, Shakespeare's Globe and Borough Market to Tower Bridge: street art, theatre, food and warships on the river. A flat riverside walk of about 5 km with a market break.
Route
London Eye
Cantilevered observation wheel on the Thames, rising one hundred and thirty-five metres with views across forty kilometres of London.
The Graffiti Tunnel
Pedestrian tunnel under Waterloo station turned London's largest legal graffiti wall.
Tate Modern
Converted power station housing world-class modern and contemporary art in a vast riverside turbine hall.
Shakespeare's Globe
Oak-and-thatch Elizabethan theatre replica on the Bankside, staging Shakespeare under the open sky.
Southwark Cathedral
Gothic Anglican cathedral on the Thames, where Shakespeare's brother was buried and Harvard's founder was baptised.
Borough Market
Nine-hundred-year-old food market tucked under railway arches, owned by a charitable trust that can never sell or close it.
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
Britain's oldest surviving operating theatre, preserved in a church attic above London Bridge with pre-anaesthetic surgical instruments.
The Shard
Glass supertall skyscraper of jagged spires, housing offices, a hotel, restaurants and a public viewing platform.
HMS Belfast
WWII light cruiser permanently moored on the Thames, now a nine-deck floating naval museum.
Tower Bridge
Victorian Gothic bascule bridge with high-level glass walkways and original steam-powered lifting machinery.