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Marble Arch

Buckingham Palace's original front gate, moved to the corner of Hyde Park in 1851 when the palace grew around it.

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Photo by Wei-Te Wong from Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Nash designed the arch as the triumphal entrance to the palace forecourt, modelled on Constantine's in Rome, and it was taken down and re-erected here when Blore added the east front that is the palace's face today. The Royal Family and the King's Troop are still the only ones allowed to pass through it, in theory; in practice it stands on a traffic island where Tyburn's gallows once were.

Where
Marble Arch, W1H 7EJ
Nearest station
Marble Arch · 1 min walk

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