| WHY GO |
| Bath is the grandest and most elegant town in England, ideal for a weekend visit, and visitors throng here in their thousands. For more than 2,000 years, the city's fortune has revolved around its hot springs and the tourism the water has attracted; first developed by the Romans. Throughout the 18th-century Bath was the fashionable haunt of English society, and the aristocrats who flocked here had the good sense and fortune to employ the brilliant architects who designed the graceful Palladian terraced housing, crescents and squares that dominate the city. Today, Bath is famous for its glorious Georgian architecture that has won it UNESCO World Heritage Site status, for good shopping and a flourishing spa and restaurant scene. |
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