When you think that London, or Manchester, or Liverpool is the most beautiful yet classical city in the United Kingdom, you are a one hundred percent wrong.  People who love travel agree that the most beautiful, elegant and historical city of England is Bath.  Located at the northeastern side of London, and 80 minute by train, Bath, is full of spectacular architecture and Georgian streets, and is actually classed as a World Heritage City.

It is a matter of fact that Bath has been hosting so many visitors since even before the ancient Romans started taking the waters there 2,000 years ago.  About two hundred years ago, the city, with Britain’s only hot spring, had become a full-fledged resort area for fashionable society and, in the early 1800s, a setting in Jane Austen’s novel.  Bath, that built entirely of cream-colored limestone, glows with warmth and elegance.  It’s a shoo-in for the Britain in Bloom competition –it just keeps winning.

While you’re in Bath and have no idea how to start your day, starts with…the baths.  Tours bring Roman artifacts to life: curses and prayers inscribed on pewter scrolls and flung into the mysterious waters, mosaic tiles depicting mythological gods. 

What you have to do is join the free walking tour departing from the Pump Room in the churchyard of Bath Abbey and wander past handsome houses on Georgian squares and terraces.  Chatty guides shares history and titillating gossip from the 1800s.

When you finish with this tour, raise a pinky in the Pump Room as you enjoy tea and scones.  This elegant Georgian hall, just above the Roman baths, trills with a string trio that performs daily.  Then bring your lunch aboard an open-air bus for one of the city tours that also includes a spin through the countryside.  Surely they pay their guides by the word here –this tour is packed with information.

In the afternoon, before the sun goes down, you can slip into something more comfortable—the Costume Museum.  Follow the evolution of clothing styles decade-by-decade through four centuries of fashion, from the first Elizabeth in the 16th century to the second Elizabeth today.

After a hearty dinner of pub grub, consider a Bizarre Bath walking tour, offered nightly Easter through September at eight o’clock.  This strolling comedy show, which promises to contain “absolutely no history or culture,” is a joy.  Then call it a day –a great day in Bath, England’s perpetually gracious host.

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