Aldeburgh, United Kingdom Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

ALDEBURGH is best known for its annual arts festival, the brainchild of composer Benjamin Britten , who is buried in the village churchyard alongside the tenor Peter Pears, his lover and musical collaborator. They lived by the seafront in Crag House on Crabbe Street – the street named for the poet who provided Britten with his greatest inspiration. Outside of June, when the festival takes place, and November, when the three-day international poetry festival fills the town, Aldeburgh is the quietest of places, with just a small fishing fleet selling its daily catch from wooden shacks along the pebbled … more »