“Oh you know, the clothes, the hair, the raging idealism.” The thought of hippies marching for political causes, smoking Gauloises on the Left Bank or storming the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square ...

For nearly 200 years, Trafalgar square has been a London institution. Flanked by the National Gallery, the square features two fountains, several busts and bronze lions at the base of Nelson's Column.