This gallery, the citys main art gallery, is located on Grand Parade, close to the famous Pulteney Bridge.

Although small, it is a very pleasant gallery. The collection includes pieces by local artists, past and present, as well as pieces by several more famous names, including Gainsborough and Turner.

The Victoria Art Gallery is open daily except Sunday, from 10am to 5.30pm Mondays to Fridays and from 10am to 5pm Saturdays. Admission is free.

The Assembly Rooms are located on Bennett Street, just off from The Circus. These rooms were the hub of Georgian high society, and are where many a dazzling ball or concert was held.

These are the only remaining Assembly Rooms in the city, although at one time there were three such buildings - the others were in the lower town.

The Bennett Street Assembly rooms were built in 1769 by famed local architect John Wood the Younger, and the classical style is typical of buildings of this period.

The main ballroom is over 30 meters long and is the biggest 18th century room in the whole of the city. Set off from this room, the Assembly Rooms also contain a Tea Room, a Card Room and the Octagon Room.

The rooms are particularly renowned for their beautiful set of original chandeliers.

During the late 18th century balls were held at these Assembly Rooms at least once a week, with those who weren't dancing playing cards in the Card Room. The balls became famous all over the country and the rich and famous flocked to them.

By the middle of the 19th century, however, the flamboyant social scene of the Georgian era had started to decline and so the Assembly Rooms gradually fell into disuse.

By the 1920s they had become a cinema, but then in the 1930s they became a National Trust property and so a long period of restoration was begun.

The rooms were almost destroyed in the war for they were hit by German bombs, but extensive restoration work since the war has brought them back to their former glory.

Today the Assembly Rooms are open to the public daily from 10am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 11am to 5pm on Sundays. Admission is free.

Various concerts and dances are held in the Ballroom every year, and these are well worth attending for the sumptuous surroundings go a long way to recreating the splendour of Georgian society.

In the basement of the Assembly Rooms there is the excellent Museum of Costume.

The Museum of Costume is located in the basement of the Assembly Rooms in Bennett Street.

There is clothing from all around the world and from as far back as the 16th century, but as you would expect the museum specialises in attire from Bath's Georgian era.

As well as the clothing, there are also exhibitions on accessories and hair styles - look out for some spectacularly flamboyant wig creations!

The museum is open from 10am to 5pm Mondays to Saturdays and from 11am to 5pm on Sundays. Admission costs around £3.60 for adults. Guided tours are available.

The Baths were built between the 1st and 4th centuries AD and were centred around the natural hot springs that rise up from the ground here at a constant temperature of 46.5 º Celsius (116 º Fahrenheit). Today you can see the Roman Baths in the form of the Roman Baths Museum, located in the Abbey Courtyard.

The centre piece of the complex is the superb Great Bath, with its adjacent Circular Bath where the bathers would cool off. These formed the basis of the Roman Baths, and you can still see the original Roman paving around the baths.