>> Bath is a city living on its past glories.
Aquae Sulis you mean Zero? That was a long time ago. But because of the hot springs, it was reinvented in the 18th c as a place for the rich during the 'season' (whenever that was). Its pretentious but quite elegant Georgian architecture dates from that Butlins-for-toffs period.
Bristolians tend to despise Bath. The money was made by (among others) Bristol merchants and slave traders, then married by lordlets and the like and spent on, among other things, poncing around in Bath.
I was raised there from 1 to 7. My mother loved the place, my father Bristolianly despised it. I can't help having a certain nostalgia for it but I don't often go there.
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