Explore Bath

The Roman Baths are the remains of a bathing complex and temple that the Romans built around Bath's hot spring from about 60–70 AD, in the town they called Aquae Sulis. Visitors walk past the Sacred Spring, the Great Bath, the temple precinct and a museum of finds; the buildings at street level date from the 19th century.

Bath Abbey is a Church of England parish church and former Benedictine monastery in the centre of Bath. Founded in the 7th century, it was rebuilt in the 12th century and again, in Perpendicular Gothic style, in the 16th, and restored by George Gilbert Scott in the 1860s. It has fan vaulting, and its west front shows angels climbing stone ladders to heaven.

Thermae Bath Spa is a spa in the centre of Bath, opened in 2006, that uses the city's natural thermal spring water. Its main building, the New Royal Bath by Grimshaw Architects, is built of Bath stone inside a glass envelope and has an open-air rooftop pool; the nearby Georgian Cross Bath holds a separate open-air thermal bath.

Pulteney Bridge crosses the River Avon in Bath. It was completed by 1774 to a Palladian design by Robert Adam, to link the city with the Bathwick estate that the Pulteney family planned to develop. It is one of four bridges in the world with shops across its full span on both sides, and the weir built in 1968–1972 lies just below it.

The Circus is a ring of large Georgian townhouses in Bath, designed by John Wood the Elder and built between 1754 and 1768. Three curved segments of equal length surround a lawn with five large plane trees, and the facades stack three classical orders: Doric, Composite and Corinthian. It was first called the King's Circus.

The Holburne Museum occupies the former Sydney Hotel, built from 1796 to designs by Charles Harcourt Masters at the end of Great Pulteney Street in Bath. Since 1916 it has shown the collection of Sir William Holburne: paintings by Gainsborough, Stubbs and Zoffany, silver, porcelain and miniatures. An extension by Eric Parry opened in 2011.

The Royal Crescent is a curved terrace of 30 houses in Bath, designed by John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774. Its 150 m Georgian facade has 114 Ionic columns and looks out over a lawn and parkland. Most houses are private homes or flats; No. 1 is a museum and the centre is a hotel.

Prior Park Landscape Garden fills a steep valley on the southern edge of Bath, laid out from the 1730s for Ralph Allen with advice from the poet Alexander Pope and later reshaped by Capability Brown. Paths lead past a grotto, a cascade and a serpentine lake down to three pools and a Palladian bridge, with views over the city. The National Trust runs it.