United Kingdom

Bath

Georgian crescents and Roman hot springs

A honey-stone Georgian city built around the only hot springs in Britain — Jane Austen's old haunt and a textbook of 18th-century town planning.

When to go

April–June and September–October.

Getting around

Walk; the World Heritage city centre is compact.

Bath highlights

The top places to start with if you only have a day or two — the essentials before you go deeper.

Roman Baths

No. 01 · Landmark

Roman Baths

The hot spring temple complex of Aquae Sulis

Britain's best-preserved Roman site, around the Sacred Spring that still bubbles up at 46 °C.

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Royal Crescent and the Circus

No. 02 · Landmark

Royal Crescent and the Circus

John Wood the Younger's 1774 sweep of 30 houses

The most famous Georgian terrace in Europe, with a museum at No. 1 showing how it lived in 1776.

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Bath Abbey

No. 03 · Landmark

Bath Abbey

Fan-vaulted last great Gothic church of England

A 16th-century abbey on a 7th-century Saxon site, with one of the finest fan vaults in the country.

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Things to do in Bath

A curated mix of landmarks, neighborhoods, and museums worth your time in Bath, United Kingdom — grouped by type below.

Landmarks

4 places