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The City's own art collection, and the amphitheatre found underneath it in 1988.
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Free, in Guildhall Yard, and two things in one building. Upstairs is the City of London Corporation's collection — 4,500 works from 1670 onwards, strongest on the Victorians, with Pre-Raphaelite pictures, Matthew Wyatt's vast Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, and the ceremonial and topographical paintings that record what the City looked like before the Blitz. Downstairs is the reason the gallery is here at all. Builders digging the foundations in 1988 hit the remains of London's Roman amphitheatre, lost since the fourth century: the entrance tunnel, the drainage and the sand-covered arena floor where perhaps six thousand people watched. It is displayed in the dark with the missing walls drawn in green light and the outline of the arena traced in the yard above, so you can stand in it at street level. Admission free; booking is suggested but you can walk in.
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