Bath, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Though only twelve miles from Bristol, BATH has a very different feel from its neighbour – more harmonious, compact, leisurely and complacent. The city's elegant crescents and Georgian buildings are studded with plaques naming Bath's eminent inhabitants from its heyday as a spa resort; it was here that Jane Austen wrote Persuasion and Northanger Abbey , and where Gainsborough established himself as a portraitist and landscape painter. Nowadays Bath ranks as one of Britain's top ten tourist cities, yet the place has never lost the exclusive air those names evoke. Bath owes its name and fame … more »