Belgravia Rooms is a wonderful hotel at 104 Ebury Street, in Belgravia, London, that offers quality budget accommodations, with over fifty rooms and studios. And, of course, you can find many places of interest within only a few minutes walking distance from the hotel:

Buckingham Palace Royal Hospital National Army Museum Westminster Cathedral Westminster Abbey Houses of Parliament Harrods Department Store River Thames Albert Bridge The Royal Parks: Hyde Park, Green Park, St James's Park The Tate Art Gallery

But why not go beyond the standard tourist destinations? Why not explore the historic sites right next door to the hotel, or down the street? Many fascinating places exist in Belgravia, and on Ebury Street.

Belgravia is a district of central London considered to be one of the wealthiest places in the world. Most of the houses were built between 1815 and 1860, though several are older by a century. And Ebury Street has been home, over the centuries, to many famous people:

The classic composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived in "Fivefields Row" (180 Ebury) in the summer of 1764 — Mozart Square, at the intersection of Ebury and Pimlico, has a bronze statue of Mozart as a child. Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, lived at 22b Ebury (originally a Baptist Church, but now flats) from 1934 to 1945. Author Vita Sackville-West lived for a time at 182 Ebury with her husband, the politician Harold Nickerson.
The novelist George Moore lived at 121 Ebury from the early 1920′s until his death in 1933. Famed writer Alfred Lord Tennyson lived at 42 Ebury in 1847. Acclaimed actress Dame Edith Evans lived at 109/11 Ebury.

Current residents of Ebury Street include Sean Connery, Nigella Lawson, and Baroness Thatcher.

Eaton Square, only two blocks north of Ebury Street, still looks very much like its original 1827 appearance. At one end of the square can be found St Peter's, a church of the Church of England, designed and built between 1824 and 1827.

A few blocks further north is Belgrave Square, one of the largest and grandest squares of London. Occupants first moved into the grand houses in 1840. Belgrave Square features statues of Simon Bolivar, Christopher Columbus, Prince Henry the Navigator, and others, as well as a sculpture named "Homage to Leonardo, the Vitruvian Man" — a sight few tourists to London can claim to have seen.