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Private Historical Walking Tour of the City of London

By Dragon Lore
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$577 per traveller* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 45m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

Discover the hidden City of London on a storytelling walk that weaves together prehistory, myth, money, and modern power. Follow an expert guide through the ancient streets of the Square Mile to uncover lost rivers, dragon guardians, sacred sites, and the financial institutions that shaped the world.

This is a private small‑group walking tour lasting approx 2.5 hours, with three route options. Choose to explore the City’s origin storey from Roman Londinium and earlier traces beneath the streets; dive into the history of money and power from ancient temples, medieval markets to global finance; or follow a more mystical path of dragons, symbols, ley‑line lore, and curious corners most Londoners never notice.
The route is adapted to your chosen storyline, and we can fine‑tune it further if you have particular areas of interest.

Along the way you’ll hear rich, carefully researched narratives that connect what you see today with what has been forgotten..

Activity location

  • Roman city wall
    • 2 London Wall
    • EC2Y 5AU, London, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Barbie Green
    • 2 London Wall Place
    • EC2Y 5AU, London, England, United Kingdom

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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City of London Historical Walking Tour: Legends & Guilds
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes2h 45m
    2h 45m
  • English
Language options: English
Price details
NZ$576.84 x 1 TravellerNZ$576.84
Total
Price is NZ$576.84
Historical tour
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes2h 45m
    2h 45m
  • English

Origin of the City of London: We uncover the history of the ancient City of the London.

Language options: English
Price details
NZ$576.84 x 1 TravellerNZ$576.84
Total
Price is NZ$576.84
Money & Power
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes2h 45m
    2h 45m
  • English

Babylon to Bitcoin: From Roman cults and Templars to modern banks, the storey of money and power.

Language options: English
Price details
NZ$576.84 x 1 TravellerNZ$576.84
Total
Price is NZ$576.84
Mystical & Dragons
  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 45 minutes2h 45m
    2h 45m
  • English

Mystical & Dragons: Dragons, symbols and legends in the Square Mile, where myth and history meet.

Language options: English
Price details
NZ$576.84 x 1 TravellerNZ$576.84
Total
Price is NZ$576.84

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Multilingual - Just tell us the language in advance
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Gain a unique history of the City of London
  • What's includedWhat's included
    A Post Tour Overview

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Roman city wall

  • 5m
The oldest part of the Roman wall is this Fort.

St Alphage Garden with ruins of St Alphage Church

  • 5m
Where the history of many peoples from many eras converge from Celtic & Roman through to Anglo-Saxons, Normans to the Guilds & Present-day.

St. Giles Cripplegate

  • 5m
One of the oldest mediaeval churches in the City and a Roman fort that was a response to Boudicca's revolt..

Guildhall

  • 5m
The town hall of the City of London has been on its current site since at least the 13th century. We take a look at it's history and mythology since Greek through to Roman, Saxon and Norman influences.

Guildhall Art Gallery

  • 5m
Location of the ancient Roman Amphitheatre and art gallery

The Royal Exchange

  • 5m
Built by a legend for adventurers to meet. These men went onto shape the new world. We also find out about what the the golden grasshopper is doing on top of it!

Bank of England

  • 10m
At the end of the 17th, after a 'glorius' revolution power stablises between Monarchy, Parliament and the City of London and it culminates with the formation of the Bank of England.

St. Lawrence Jewry

  • 5m
The official church of the City of London - named after one of the early martyrs of the 3rd C and after a Jewish ghetto.

London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE

  • 10m
An ancient roman temple with secrets linking it's god to the toipics of money, power and ressurection.

St. Edmund The King Church

  • 5m
St Edmund the last true historical King and Martyr of England.

Bank of England Museum

  • 10m
We tell the storey of modern money and trade, how it changed shape and in turn the world itself. It's stories entail the beheading of a King, Companies that developed an empire to the advent of modern day money: The digital dollar and bitcoin.

Leadenhall Market

  • 5m
A market that dates back to 1321, we talk about the truth money, trade and dragons!

The Guild Church of ST Mary Aldermary

  • 10m
The Oldest Mary Church with a history going back 1 thousand years whose history intersects with Money, Power and Guilds.

Forgotten Streams. Bloomberg Arcade

  • 5m
An art piece for one of the ancient forgotten rivers of the City London that still runs today but below the streets.

Pope's Head Alley

  • 5m
In Pope’s Head Alley, we discover papalm pharaonic symbols, medieval religious that links to the storey europe's rise to power.

Jamaica Wine House

  • 5m
The oldest coffee shop in the City was host to the early hustlers and bustlers of trade and finance.

St Michael Cornhill

  • 5m
On perhaps the oldest site site of christian worship we discuss the dirty business of Indulgences.

Change Alley

  • 5m
Change Alley’s packed coffeehouses saw the birth of organised stock trading, insurance markets, and speculative manias, culminating in the South Sea Bubble whose debts echoed into the modern era.

The london stone

  • 5m
A mysterious london stone which has been at the heart of of the City's history and mythology since at least Roman times. It is said that London falls if this stone is ever taken out of the City!

St. Mary-le-Bow

  • 10m
A mysterious church with many ancient symbolism

St. Paul's Cathedral

  • 5m
Dive deep into the a few potent but overlooked symbols hidden in plain sight!

St Martin Ludgate

  • 10m
Houses a secret that connects to ancient world.

St Bride's Church

  • 5m
One of the last places in the city that still honours its Celtic past.

St George and the Dragon Statue

  • 5m
We delve into the legend of St George.

Temple Church

  • 5m
The former headquarters of the Knights templars with legends and secrets aplenty

St. Dunstan in the East

  • 5m
The beautiful ruins tells the storey of the Dunstan, a key political advisor to Saxon kings during early England.

Temple Bar Memorial

  • 5m
At the boundary of the City and at the footsteps of a symbol that embodies power: The Dragon!

Location

Activity location

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    Roman city wall
    • 2 London Wall
    • EC2Y 5AU, London, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    Barbie Green
    • 2 London Wall Place
    • EC2Y 5AU, London, England, United Kingdom
  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    90 Queen St
    • 90 Queen Street
    • London, England, United Kingdom

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