The Tate Modern isn’t just a Great Gorilla Run Route Highlight - it is, quite simply, one of the highlights of the entire world!

London is blessed with incredible places - music venues, museums, galleries, parks, eateries and not least the cheeky-chappie people.

But the Tate Modern is super-highlight, one of those places that you can return to time and time again and never, ever get bored.

It’s appropriate that such an uber-location is situated on the Great Gorilla Run route - after all, the Great Gorilla Run is London’s uber-charity fun run.

Nicely placed around the halfway mark of the Great Gorilla Run, the Tate Modern provides some nice eye-candy for a tired Great Gorilla.

Sprinting along the narrow Thames path of Bankside, scattering tourists left, right and centre, the Great Gorilla suddenly finds the route-scape opened up in front of him or herself, and there is it - the spectacular brickwork mass of the Tate Modern.

Towering hundreds of metres above the river, the Tate Modern provides a fittingly humongous backdrop to the run and it’s usually where the Great Gorilla Run water station is located, bringing much-needed liquid refreshment to a thirsty Great Gorilla.

Flora and fauna is usually hard to come by in Central London and, generally, the Tate Modern is no exception - it’s all about the art man, after all.

However, there is one rare, spectacular, and record-breaking exception. Glance high up at the top of the chimney, swaying side to side in a vertiginous, optical-illusion, and you may make some birds circling or perched on the edge.

Manky city pigeons you say? It’s a fair bet, but you’re probably wrong. The chimney top is home to one of London famous families of peregrine falcons.

Each summer a pair of peregrines raises it’s family on the top of the Tate and in so doing helps control the numbers of those much-maligned manky city pigeons.

So watch the skies when you’re running past the Tate - you might just see one of the world’s fastest creatures.

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PREVIOUS GREAT GORILLA RUN HIGHLIGHTS:

No.1: Agenda Bar
No.2: Clothworker’s Hall
No.3: The Millenium AKA ‘Wobbly’ Bridge