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WHAT MOST VISITORS MISS AND WHERE TO FIND IT

You have walked the Royal Crescent. You have crossed Pulteney Bridge. You have photographed the weir and queued for the Roman Baths. And yet, somewhere between the coach parties and the crowded pavements, you cannot shake the feeling that the Bath you have been seeing is not quite the Bath you came to find.
You are right. It is not.
The Bath that most visitors experience is the city on display, polished, signposted, and performing for an audience. It is beautiful, certainly, but it is only the surface of a place that runs considerably deeper than its most famous streets suggest. Beneath the tourist circuit, just a few footsteps from the busiest corners of the city, there is another Bath entirely. A Bath of hushed courtyards where the afternoon light falls on old stone and nobody else is watching. Of narrow passages that cut between Georgian façades and deposit you somewhere the noise of the city cannot reach. Of forgotten gardens, secret stairways, riverside paths, and hilltop viewpoints that most visitors never find because nobody has told them where to look.
Until now.
This gentle guide is written for the traveller who wants to experience Bath properly, not as a set of attractions to be completed but as a living city to be genuinely known. It takes you off the standard itinerary and into the hidden spaces that give Bath its real character, covering more than sixty specific named locations across the city and its surrounding hillsides, including:

• Secret courtyards tucked within minutes of the busiest streets, where calm and beauty exist entirely undisturbed
• Hidden passages and narrow lanes that thread through the city's Georgian fabric in ways no map quite captures
• Forgotten gardens and quiet residential squares that locals treasure and visitors routinely miss
• Elevated stairways and hilltop walks delivering views of Bath that most visitors never see
• Overlooked interiors open to anyone who simply walks through the door
• Hidden stretches of riverside and canal towpath where the city feels genuinely rural
• Forgotten villages sitting within the city boundaries, going about their daily lives entirely on their own terms
• Architectural details and decorative features written into the city's stone that reward the traveller who remembers to look up
• Practical itineraries for one day and a full weekend of slow, unhurried exploration

Whether you are visiting Bath for the first time or returning to a city you thought you already knew, this guide will show you things that will change the way you see it, permanently and for the better.
Bath has been waiting to show you its best side. This is the guide that tells you where to find it.
Stop rushing. Start discovering. Get your copy today and find the Bath that belongs to you.

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• Plný název: BATH'S HIDDEN COURTYARDS
• Podnázev: A Gentle Guide to Bath's Secret Courtyards, Secluded Passages, and Forgotten Corners
• Autor: Howard McCarthy
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 134
• EAN: 9798258669971
• ID: 52220122
• Nakladatelství: Independently published
• Hmotnost: 191 g
• Rozměry: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Datum vydání: 24. April 2026

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