Bath city guide

Located in the north-eastern corner of Somerset, easy to access thanks to its situation on the Bristol to London train line, the city of Bath is a popular resort for visitors from both home and abroad, frequented by all kinds of travellers looking to find an iconic, quintessentially British destination. Indeed its status as one of the only cities across the world to be categorised in its entirety as a World Heritage site only serves to add to its renown.

Bath has kept its status as an important cultural and political location for nigh on two thousand years. During the Roman occupation of this island, they built a network of baths around a thermal spring at this site and constructed a temple for worship of the goddess Sulis. The town grew around the baths, and this became a top place to visit for all those who were suffering with illness, believing as they did that the healing properties of the spring would help them.

In the years that followed Bath kept its status in the political life of this fast-growing country. King Arthur is said to have fought and beaten the Saxons in the hills around the city, whilst Saxon rulers through the years gradually remodelled its design.

As other towns around the country grew and came to prominence, Bath ? with its rather distant location ? fell out of the history books and lost its place. It was not until the Georgian period from the eighteenth century that the city re-emerged as an important place, as a large programme of building work led to the erection of some striking examples of the period''s architecture, many of which are recognisable to visitors from all over the world. The Royal Crescent, Queen''s Square and the Circus have featured in documentaries and films so often that tourists sometimes feel a profound familiarity with the city when they first step off the coach.

For several hundred years Bath largely fell out of the history books, but came back to prominence during the Georgian period when an extensive building programme resulted in some of the best examples of Georgian architecture in the world.

Places like the Royal Crescent, Queen''s Square and the Circus have appeared in thousands of television programmes to the extent that many people who visit the city feel like they''re already been there, so familiar are some of the buildings.

Brits and foreign travellers alike flock to Bath year on year. Whilst it has benefited as a destination from the increase in numbers of people staying at home ? or taking a ?staycation? ? it also still attracts visitors from many other countries around the globe.

Cities like Bath have benefited from the rise of the staycation, and it is justifiably one of the most popular holiday destinations for Brits as well as people visiting from abroad. Bath, perhaps more than any other city in the UK, is almost always busy, but never rushed and is a fantastic place to visit.

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Caron Kristan is a freelance travel writer with a fondness for UK based travel. They recommend Octopus Travel for Bath hotels.

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