London Piccadilly Circus
Piccadilly Circus is the meeting place for many of the most famous streets in London. In this beautiful Regent Street (shopping paradise), the famous Piccadilly (Fortnum and Mason, the Ritz, the Royal Academy of art), and cross cultural Shaftesbury Avenue (theatres, Chinatown). In the midst of all this is the famous statue of Eros, 1893, the winged messenger of love, which commemorates Lord Shaftesbury. The circus was originally created as part of a plan to connect Carlton House, the House of the Prince Regent, who became King Jorge IV in 1820, to Regent s Park. When Shaftesbury Avenue was created in 1885, the area became occupied with traffic and advertisers saw the potential of advertising, in 1895 first posters illuminated London they were released at Piccadilly Circus. During the following century it was the version of London’s Times Square, but only one building now carries fences. Lighting of the facades that make make the plaza known as the square of the light, began to settle in 1910, when they appeared in their corners the first electric ads from 1923 ads increased considerably, especially in the facade of the London Pavilion. Today when traveling to London can see all kinds of ads: video screens, digital projectors although the economic cost of the signage has done that already there is as many as a few years ago.
A curious fact say that the name of Piccadilly comes on the first road that in 1626 existed there and received the name of a House that belonged to Robert Baker and which was called Pickadilly Hall. Robert Baker was a well known sailor for selling piccadills or piccadillies, which was a type of necklace. The word Circus comes to describe what is a circular open space in a confluence of streets this was the aspect that initially had the area, although that form circular is lost in 1886 with the construction of Shaftesbury Avenue.