A Bucket List for the Spa City of Bath

[Micheal Jorden]

The spa city of Bath has worldwide fame to be one of the most historic and culturally significant cities on the British Isles. Many thousands of visitors flock to the Somerset city every year to see the wonderful culture and to see some England's most celebrated landmarks and attractions.

Here, we look at a quick list to greatly help as a brief guide proper to form a great bucket list when enjoying some recreational amount of time in the beautiful city of Bath.

Without doubt one of the top places to go to in the city for most of us will be the ancient Roman Baths. This building is of particular historical interest as it is just a perfectly well-preserved Roman bathing house, which dates back once again to 60-70 AD when its construction was begun by the occupying Roman Empire. The Romans wished to harness and make use of Bath's unique hot underground geothermal spring waters.

Today, the Roman Baths have now been carefully preserved for visitors to savor and are now actually situated next door to at least one of Bath's other biggest attractions: the Grand Pump Room. The key block of the Grand Pump Room was built of Bath stone, with its construction beginning in 1789, and was finally completed 1799. The Grand Pump Room's facade features Corinthian half columns, which some say was from influence from the 'Temple at Bassae', in Greece. This is a fantastic building to go to and you can even dine however you like in the dinning room where you could have a meal or just afternoon tea whilst listening to call home classical music from the resident musicians.

Next on any bucket list must certanly be Bath's magnificent Royal Crescent, which can be instantly recognisable by visitors from round the world. Situated high on the hill overlooking the city and Victoria Park, it is simple to see why the designer and architect John Wood the Younger built the very first of the wonderful buildings Szechenyi Thermal Bath Budapest, as it gave the rich and royalty of the time the most desirable residence in the city. The Royal Crescent is widely accepted to be among the greatest types of Georgian architecture found in the UK.

Pulteney Bridge should truly be on anyone's shortlist for city locations to go to as it sits across the city's weir of the River Avon. It is most surely one of the world's most beautiful bridges. Architecturally, like the 'Ponte Vecchio' in Florence, Pulteney Bridge is certainly one of a handful of historic bridges on earth constructed with shops as part of its structure.