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Barbican Center

Barbican Centre, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the City of London and is the largest of its type in Europe.  A very popular London attraction with art loving tourists.  

 

The Centre hosts classicaland contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhibitions. It also houses a library, three restaurants, and aconservatory. The London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra are based in the Barbican Centre's concert hall.

 

 

The Barbican Centre is owned, funded, and managed by the City of London Corporation, the third-largest arts funder in the United Kingdom. It was built as The City's gift to the nation at a cost of £161 million (equivalent to £400 million in 2007),[2] and opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 March 1982.

 

Nearest Tube Station:  Barbican

 

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