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The Eros Statue at Piccadilly Circus

Picture: Piccadilly Circus Eros statue

The Eros statue a major landmark on top of the the 1893 Shaftesbury-Memorial-Fountain at Piccadilly Circus the legendary traffic intersection of London. The intersection connects a total of 8 streets Coventry Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, Glasshouse Street, Sherwood Street, Regent Street, Piccadilly, Haymarket and Great WIndmill Street. The nude aluminum Eros statue in fact is an angel of christian charity. The Shaftesbury Memorial is like a meeting point for international tourists. The closest Tube station to the Eros statue at Piccadilly Circus is Piccadilly Circus Station actually situated below Piccadilly Circus and connects the 1906 Bakerloo Line and the 1928 Piccadilly Line. (Guide to the Tube color coding)

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Vertaling: Het standbeeld van Eros in Londen Soho Piccadilly Circus in het Nederlands
Übersetzung: Der Engel der Barmherzigkeit am Piccadilly Circus, Eros oder Engel? auf Deutsch
More about Piccadilly Circus and the Eros statue at wikipedia.
WebCam's of (not only) Piccadilly Circus at www.bbc.co.uk, +100 Transport for London jam webcams of Central London, the North, South, East and West London area on this page including venues like Princes Circus, Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner, Trafalgar Square... e.t.c. Unfortunately pictures refresh is slow!
Translations: Fuente de Cupido (es); Liebesbrunnen Amor (de); Amoro (esperanto); Fontaine d'Amor Cupidon (fr);