Ye Olde City of London - Where the gold and money rule
The City of London is steeped deep in both, history and modernity. A wondrous entity where trade and money , and money trading , have played a major role in the financial power the city has created over the world. It is a sovereign district , more like a state within a state , with own jurisdiction, police, rules and rituals dating back to the most ancient times. Medieval London had two main districts - the City of London , where ordinary busy life had been run, and the City of Westminster , the seat of power - monarchy and government - now also the cultural West End . Over time the ordinary citizens moved outwards from the City , creating all the adjacent London boroughs. The City has now only a few thousand residents but almost a million people travel here for work in the big financial institutions and services. The eastern old part of the City is beaming with the " Ye olde " memoirs of the Merry Old England - the legendary medieval period, praised in song and lite