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Leicester House was a large aristocratic townhouse in Westminster, London, to the north of where Leicester Square now is. Built by the Earl of Leicester and completed in 1635, it was later occupied by Elizabeth Stuart, a British princess and former Queen of Bohemia, and in the 1700s by the two successive Hanoverian princes of Wales.
Leicester House may refer to: Leicester House, the original name of Essex House (London), London, built c. 1575 and demolished in the 1670s. Leicester House, Westminster, the house that Leicester Square is named after, built in the 1630s and demolished c. 1791.
Leicester Square (/ ˈ l ɛ s t ər / ⓘ LEST-ər) is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, England. It was laid out in 1670 as Leicester Fields, which was named after the recently built Leicester House, itself named after Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester.
Leicester Square es una concurrida plaza peatonal en el West End de Londres, entre Covent Garden y Piccadilly Circus, conocida por ser un lugar de eventos culturales y atracciones turísticas.
Essex House era una casa que encabezaba el Strand de Londres. Originalmente llamada Leicester House , fue construida alrededor de 1575 por Robert Dudley, I Conde de Leicester , y fue rebautizada con el nombre de Essex House después de ser heredado por su hijastro, Robert Devereux, II conde de Essex , después de la muerte de Leicester en 1588.
Leicester Square es el centro del cine de Londres. Se dice que la plaza contiene el cine (llamado Odeon Leicester Square ) con la pantalla más grande del mundo y el cine con el mayor número de butacas (más de 1600).
Leicester House. First built in the 1630s, writes Leonard W. Cowie, Leicester House became the London home of three eighteenth-century Princes of Wales. The building of Leicester House in the seventeenth century heralded the expansion of London north-westwards beyond Charing Cross.
