1 – The Circus 2 – Bath Abbey 3 – Assembly Rooms 4 – Roman Baths 5 – Theatre Royal 6 – Southgate 7 – Pulteney Bridge 8 – Holburne Museum of Art 9 – Queen Square A – Jane Austen Centre B – Royal Crescent C – Thermae Bath Spa

Enjoy the Image Gallery – Illuminate Bath took place this year from Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 January 2012 – It was located in Bath city centre in the area around The Roman Baths, Bath Street, Stall Street, Abbey Church Yard and Kingston Parade.

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Prior Park Landscape Garden, created in the 18th century by local entrepreneur Ralph Allen and designed by the poet Alexander Pope and the landscape gardener Capability Brown, is now owned and managed by the National Trust. Pictured is one of only four Palladian bridges of this design in the world. A Palladian Bridge is a [...]

What a great example of the old and new, a thoroughly modern design in a Georgian surrounding. Thermae Bath Spa opened in 2006 near the site of the Royal Bath. Bath is well known for hot spa water, which was used by the Romans in the famous Roman Baths and the tradition now continues.

Re-opens 14th May 2011 “With its beautiful cafe and new shop, a new library and exciting interactive displays the renewed Holburne will offer a rich and rewarding range of delights. We will reopen in 2011 as a confident and adventurous museum and an exhibition venue of national standing, welcoming and inspiring visitors from Bath and [...]

Right in the heart of Bath is one of Britain’s oldest theatres, and probably its most beautiful: the Theatre Royal. Before 1805 the theatre was in Orchard Street (Sarah Siddons played there from 1778; now it is a Freemason’s Hall). In addition to the Theatre Royal, there are regular productions at the Rondo, two miles [...]

Pulteney Bridge, with its sweeping horseshoe-shaped weir, is one of Bath’s most famous images. The bridge, which incorporates shops, was built by Robert Adam in 1769. The estimated cost of the bridge was £1, 000. It ended up costing £10, 000 which, over 200 years ago, was the equivalent of several million pounds today. Boat [...]

The whole north side of the square was built as seven separate houses in Palladian style which together resembled a palace. The majestic obelisk in the middle of Queen Square was erected in 1735 by Beau Nash. The square is an ideal city-centre retreat to sit out and relax in the sun. This is the [...]

The amazingly complete remains of The Roman baths and the Victorian restoration are still fed by water from one of Bath’s three hot springs. Rain 10,000 years ago seeped into the hills, was heated by the rocks, and now bubbles up into the baths. These are the only hot springs in Britain. In pagan times [...]

Royal Victoria Park must be the finest park and public adventure play area for miles; there really is something for everyone. The adventure play area is very impressive, with thrilling and imaginative equipment grouped roughly according to age group. There are slides, swings, elaborate climbing frames, a sand pit, tunnel slides, a large tyre swing [...]

Jane Austen – The famous writer lived at 4 Sydney Place, right opposite the Holburne Museum, between 1801-4. Her vivid descriptions of Milsom Street in Northanger Abbey are still relevant today. A film of Persuasion was made in Bath (picture) and Ms Austen would see that little had changed in many of the places she [...]

Designed by John Wood the Younger as lodging-houses for the gentry on their visits to Bath, this crescent was completed in 1767. It was in the middle of farmland then and had wonderful sweeping views of the hills and Avon valley. Those views now offer additional interest for fans of gasholder design and housing estate [...]

Two minutes’ walk from the Royal Crescent is The Circus, another jewel in Bath’s crown. It consists of 30 houses in groups of 8, 12 and 10, and is now a prestige collection of town houses and flats. Designed by John Wood the Elder and completed by his son in 1754, the Circus has three [...]

Bath’s splendid Abbey, dating from 1499, marks the very centre of the town. Bath is a city but this is not classed as a cathedral – the cathedral for the diocese is in Wells, 20 miles away. The carvings on the front of the Abbey were recently restored to their full glory, and show off [...]

If you’re in a hurry you won’t have time to visit the Roman Baths, but you can spend five minutes inside the Pump Room listening to the live salon music and sipping water pumped up from the spring. Do not attempt to complain when you suspect it is harbouring the remains of Jane Austen’s dog; [...]