Homes and Property | Home PageWish you were here?Italian flavours at Covent GardenRoss Lydall @RossLydall|Local Government Correspondent|Evening Standard13 April 2012It might look like a scene from a piazza in Italy, but look again. This is one of a series ofpictures that have been commissioned by the Visit London agency to get Britons to come for one last break this summer.Photographer Mark Anderson made locations from Covent Garden's piazza to the Thames look similar to top tourist spots abroad. And hundreds of people were fooled. Out of more than 1,000 people shown the images: 18 per cent thought the South Bank might have been Australia. Two-thirds thought Covent Garden was Italy. Visit London commissioned the shots to promote its Totally London Festivals Month throughout September.Chief executive David Campbell said: "There'll be no less than 500 hours of free entertainment from high-adrenaline boating to street performance." For a full guide to the new festivals, see www.visitlondon.com MORE ABOUTCity Of Westminster BoroughCovent GardenKingston Upon ThamesRiver Thames
