Trafalgar Square is known for Nelson's column but many other famous people are depictred in statues and paintings nearby. As you arrive from Charing Cross station, I like murals which are informative, relevant, colourful and happy.
The Bakerloo line platform coming in from the north is very welcoming and uplifting with murals of historic characters.
Unfortunately upstairs the steps to the streets are filthy. But you are right out in the centre of London with Trafalgar Square and Nelson's Column and the National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery only steps away. Oscar Wilde's reclining statue is across the road. Downhill to your right is the Embankment station on the river Thames. It's the place to meet up with friends especially foreign friends who arrive on business or as tourists. Also in the are is Embankment station a few steps away.
In Leicester Square I saw caricaturists at work. beyond them I found a bust of Hogarth. In the pavement were handprints of famous people.
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