Grand tour of the Apple retail palaces of Europe: LondonSelling iPhones and iPads in an Italianate Piazza with a colorful history.
<p>FORTUNE -- I can just see Steve Jobs getting excited about planting Apple's (AAPL) flagship U.K. store in the Piazza of Covent Garden, near the Drury Lane Theater, St. Paul's ("the Actor's") Church and, according to Fancyapint?, 272 pubs and bars.</p>
<p>Apple already had a store on Regent Street just a mile away in a busier district with serious shoppers and serious brand names: Hugo Boss, Anthropologie, Burberry's.</p>
<p>But Covent
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Grand tour of the Apple retail palaces of Europe: London
