Canary Wharf is, of course, business district. But such is the business area where you want to come again and again – to wander through tree-lined streets, enjoy the promenade with wonderful view of London, listening to the lapping of the water in the old harbour.

Is Canary Wharf on the Isle of dogs, East of the city. The name he got from the dock, where from the Canary Islands drove the sea fruits. Around located the port of London is one of the largest in the world. But in the second half of the twentieth century came the era of container ships, the port to it is not adapted, and by the seventies had died. Docklands – so in memory of the port called this dirty and depressing area.

The idea of its reconstruction and transformation office in the quarter came to a head banker Michael von Terminal. The idea was supported by the government of Margaret Thatcher. Construction began in 1988, but in the early nineties was a crisis in the real estate market, the project collapsed. However, in the middle decades of work resumed. The decisive impetus they gave to the expansion of the network of light metro Docklands, making Canary Wharf available – from this moment on, people started to turn into a real competitor city.

In the distance Canary Wharf looks roughly like Paris La défense – towering over the London skyline an array of glittering skyscrapers. Local 235-metre high tower "one Canada Square" for a long time was the tallest building in Britain, until it was overtaken London's "the Shard". Half a dozen skyscrapers, which houses the offices of major corporations, form a compact array.

The area is striking in the amazing combination of skyscrapers, ancient houses, lush greenery and canals with bridges. The designers were given carte Blanche to fit into existing neighborhoods was not necessary, but they are skillfully used in the design district and the historic harbour, and two cranes, and buildings of the old docks. Turned out very beautifully and organically.

Come here mainly for the light metro trains – they are automated and do not have drivers. On the Thames a pier, where stick river buses.

In Canary Wharf there is so much to see in the red-brick former warehouse located in the Museum of London Docklands, in the Harbor are on the Moors of old barges and ships, converted into floating restaurants along the quays stretch open air cafes, bars, shops. In this sparkling, polished to provide a clean and sterile area, nothing but the Museum and the names, no reminders of his past.