# Leicester Square

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/city-of-westminster/spot/leicester-square/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: Leicester Square, a spot in City of Westminster with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [City of Westminster](https://mytuur.com/en/city/city-of-westminster/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_LeicesterSquare_68c53c5ae7953b13375399c7_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leicester_Square_c1880.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_LeicesterSquare_68c53c5ae7953b13375399c7_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Redeveloped_Leicester_Square.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_LeicesterSquare_68c53c5ae7953b13375399c7_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare_Statue_in_Leicester_Square.JPG)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_LeicesterSquare_68c53c5ae7953b13375399c7_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leicester_Square_in_September_2016.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_LeicesterSquare_68c53c5ae7953b13375399c7_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ticket_Booth,_Leicester_Square_W1_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1284462.jpg)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through City of Westminster. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.