From this stop on your London bus tour at Hyde Park Corner, the view is dominated by the Wellington Arch topped with the magnificent bronze Quadriga.
Wellington Arch, completed in 1830, was originally located almost directly opposite Wellington's residence, the nearby Apsley house. The arch was built to commemorate Britain's victories 
led by The Duke Of Wellington over Napolean. In 1846 a huge mounted statue of Wellington adorned the top of the Arch but was later moved to Aldershot, a major garrison town in Surrey, to be replaced in 1912 with the sculpture which adorns the Arch to this day, the Quadriga.
The sculpture, the largest bronze in Europe, depicts the angel of peace descending to earth commanding a chariot of war. Structurally, the Arch is hollow and inside has three floors of exhibits which chart the Arch's history and purpose.
Following on from the Second World War the area around Park Lane was developed and widened to allow a free flow of traffic between Piccadilly and Knightsbridge. This meant that the area surrounding the Arch became a feature rich traffic island that now boasts some of the most poignant memorials in the capital.
St George and the Dragon, on the corner of Hyde Park nearest Constitution Hill, is the monument dedicated to the cavalry of the Empire and shows St George classically on horseback, sword pointing triumphantly to the heavens, straddling the defeated and yielding Dragon. The base of the monument shows a frieze of horsemen.