Wellington Arch is a triumphal arch located to the south of Hyde Park, now isolated on a traffic island. If you are already planning on visiting the Buckingham Palace, I would strongly recommend making Wellington Arch your stop ahead of it. Just because you could easily get off Hyde Park Corner underground tube station, and have the arch just in front of you. To get to Buckingham Palace from there would be easy. Via Constitution Hill, it takes only about 10 minutes to get there by walking.
It is impressive even from a distance. Originally built as an entrance to Buckingham Palace, it has a quadriga (chariot drawn by 4 horses) sitting on top of the structure. With Nike descending from it, The Goddess of Victory, I assume the entire sculpture signifies the victory of Britain in the Napoleonic Wars.
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