- Trafalgar Square was built to memorialise Lord Horatio Nelson’s victory against Napoleon’s navy at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
- They built Trafalgar Square, the National Gallery, Nelson’s Column, all the plinths, the fountains, practically the whole lot was put in place by 1845.
- From the 14th to the 19th centuries the present Trafalgar Square was the site of the royal mews, where Geoffrey Chaucer once toiled as a clerk of works.
- In Trafalgar Square there are also various statues of well-known people such as George Washington, given to the English by the State of Virginia.
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- 10. In this book, Trafalgar Square is called “Victory Square”
- 11. You can “build” Trafalgar Square right at home
- Trafalgar Square is a public square in the City of Westminster, Central London, built around the area formerly known as Charing Cross.
- Trafalgar Square, London, United Kingdom. 33,079 likes · 163 talking about this · 377,739 were here.
- Nelson's statue is worth a trip to the busy Trafalgar Square. We loved. our trip here, the Trafalgar Square is marvelous for visitors and locals..
- London's Trafalgar Square, home to famous sites including the Nelson Column and the National Gallery, is a center of movement and culture.
- The original name was to have been "King William the Fourth's Square", but George Ledwell Taylor suggested the name "Trafalgar Square".