8 reasons to visit Cheltenham, UK

With around 2,500 listed buildings, the striking architectural heritage of Cheltenham, provides an immaculately preserved tribute to the elegance of Regency, which attracts visitors from afar.

The interest of King Jorge Lll in the warm Waters of Spa of Cheltenham, alleged medicinal benefits, caused an avalanche of visitors to Cheltenham, raising the state of the city and made it a shelter for the rich.

The neoclassical splendor, the striated columns and the great porchs, lived beyond the years of regency, and during the first years of Queen Victoria’s reign. With the proud Cheltenham clients adding spacious green parks to the city’s welcome appearance.

1. Pittville bomb cream

Pittville, a mile from the center of Cheltenham, was imagined as a large Pittville bomb room, by Joseph Pitt, to rival the city’s spa.

Today waters are not drawn, but Pittville Park with their aviary, playground, fishing, ornamental lakes, grass and tennis club is a favorite leisure destination for Cheltenham’s people and visitors to the city.

2. Montpellier

Started in the regency period, Montpellier was appointed to emulate the greatness of the French city in the French Riviera. Around the last decades, Montpellier, becomes increasingly great with his boutiques, hairdressers, galleries and exclusive restaurants. Started in the regency period, Montpellier was appointed to emulate the greatness of the French city in the French Riviera.

Among the famous White Cariátidas, the ancient female sculptures of Athenian Athenian style, the coffees spill on the pavement.

3. Prithvi Restaurant

Cheltenham is recognized for its variety or excellent restaurants. In Prithvi, which means “Earth” or “Mother Earth” in Sanskrit, East meets West in a restoration place that has collected innumerable awards.

Privthi is far from being a conventional Indian restaurant. Chef Tom Law of classical training works with the owner Jay Rahman to bring European techniques to delicately refined subcontinent tastes. There is no furious vindaloo heat here, only subtle and sophisticated flavors.

The artichoke velouté, in the seven courses of seven courses, personifies the intercultural creativity of Privthi. “Try to try each layer in his spoon,” he encourages Ouritress, while we collect the artichoke in thin slices and the creamy third sprayed with crispy crushed pistachio.

4. Kibou restaurant

Located centrally in Recent Arcade, the decoration of Kibou, its bold murals, cherry flower awnings, vibrant neon signs and open kitchens, leads diners to a culinary trip to Japan.

A fixed menu encourages the diners to Sashimi and Sushi, while it also goes in the style of tapas to explore the Japanese favorites through the investigation of small plates. Looking around the restaurant restaurant, each table was a different route through the exciting tastes of the Far East.

The spectacular colors and the symmetry of the volcano roll, sealed in avocado and salmon flavors, are both art and its delicious.

Dynamite pawns may sound incendiary, but their taste ratio certainly exceeds its heat in the heat table of Chile Scoville. Whatever your choices, be sure to save space for the Matcha cake with ice cream.

5th Sudeley Castle

Only six miles from Cheltenham, in Winchcombe, is Sudeley Castle. The movie of the historian David Starkey’s film explains why the castle changed hands so frequently and dramatically in the fifteenth, seventeenth and seventeenth centuries: the monarchs rewarded men who were doing a castle as a gift. If they made a mistake, they lost both the castle and their head.

In 1649, after the civil war, the castle was “despised”; It is not suitable for defense by the victorious Roundheads. Since the nineteenth century, the Crosselado Castle and its many gardens have restored the leg.

The Sudeley chapel houses the tomb of the sixth and last wife of Henry Vllll, Katherine Parr. Liberated from her duty about Henry’s death, with the haste of the bleeding, she married Thomas Seymour, the love of her love, only two months after she was a widow. There was no happy ending. At 36, Katherine died of purple fever, just five days after giving birth to a daughter. It became the only English queen buried in private lands.

6. Ian Coley Sporting School

In the stripes of Southeast Cheltenham, Ian Coley Sporting’s Shooting School has clay dove shots.

Offering a “Go Go 25”, the instructors equip beginners with appropriate weapons, eye protectors, shoulder rowing for setback, cartridges and an essential information security session. Such is the quality of the friendly instruction, quickly identifying the dominant eyes and the trends of raising the chin of the weapon, which we are soon surprisingly hitting clays.

Next to the rural clothing store, is the weapons store. Fans can buy a gun on the shelf or be measured for a radio model. “Only an eighth inch can make a difference,” says Alex, who measures. Some clients, who ordered from Beretta, were traveling to the Gardone Valley of Italy to see their weapon.

7. Civic splendor

In 1716, the discovery of a warm spring of water transformed Cheltenham of a small quiet town in the place to be seen in Regency England.

Cheltenham became rich from rich visitors who came to take the waters, financing an extensive civic construction and the creation of green public parks.

An extravagant sculpture of Neptune, extracted by four sea horses, has a look from the Trevi source of Rome, which illustrates the great aspirations of the city.

8. Cotswold Grange

Between Town Center and Pittville Park, Cotswold Grange, a 20 -room boutique hotel is a short walk from Cheltenham’s best attractions.

Located in a quiet conservation area, the house was originally built in 1856 for a rich merchant, the great house offers historical elegance through rooms that have been designed individually.

With a wide parking lot, guests can park and then walk to everything that the city of the festival has to sacrifice. Currently, the Visit Cheltenham website has 36 festivals that appear by 2025: including cryket, food and drink, horse races, jazz, literature, music, poetry, pride and science.

Disclosure: Our stay was sponsored by visit Chelttenham and Cotswold Grange.

Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards is a travel writer from Oxfordshire, the United Kingdom. Althegh Michael had published his first travel pieces almost four decades ago, he is still finding new luxury destinations to visit and write.