Christopher Wren contributed a lot to London’s landscape and seeing as yesterday was a rare winter day in London (bright blue skies, warm sun, but of course still really cold), I thought it would be good to go and visit another one of this famous buildings, the Monument to the Great Fire of London.

The Monument is 202 feet high (62 metres), apparently the distance it is from the origin of the fire that first started the Great Fire of London. There are 311 steps in a winding corridor that you have to climb to reach the very small viewing platform. At the top of the monument is a Gilded Urn of Fire, representative of the Great Fire. The bottom of the monument has a number of inscriptions and drawings depicting the events that conspired during this time.

The city maintains this historic building and there is a very small entrance fee of £2 for adults and £1.50 for children (up from the 6p it was when it first opened).

The Monument can be found closest to Monument Station (Central/Northern Line), or by foot on Monument Street, London, EC3R 8AH.