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Bristol Information
City of Bristol
Set around an historic harbour, Bristol is a bustling, commercial and creative city. In recent years, it has enjoyed an impressive renaissance, finding its heart and soul as never before. Bristol is lively and dynamic, cosmopolitan and ambitious. Its cityscape is a fusion of elegant Georgian and Victorian architecture and stunning modern buildings and developments.
Bristol boasts a mix of award-winning and internationally-acclaimed cultural institutions, world-class events and festivals and enticing shops and markets. Bristol is successful as both a leisure and business destination.
In the new city we find the spectacular shopping and leisure quarter of Cabot Circus.
Did you know?
Bristol has been selected as one of the World’s Top 10 Cities to visit in 2009 by DK Eyewitness, the world’s
best-selling guidebook publisher. Other cities within the list include Buenos Aires, Gdansk, Washington DC, Vienna, Cape Town, Copenhagen, Fes, Seattle (USA) and Vilnius.
Bristol was the only UK city to be short-listed for the first ever 'European Green Capital' award. The city was selected alongside seven other European top environmental cities out of 35 initial applications.
In 2008, just days after being recognised as a potential European Green Capital, Bristol was then announced as the ‘UK’s Most Sustainable City’ in a separate independent assessment undertaken by Forum for the Future.
Bristol was crowned ‘European City of the Year’ at the annual awards held by the Academy of Urbanism, whose 100 members include industry-leading architects, planners, engineers, developers and designers.
Bristol’s new £500million retail development, Cabot Circus, won the ‘Best Shopping Centre in Europe’ award at the 2008 MAPIC International Retail Development Conference in Cannes.
Bristol has beautiful interesting places and famous products.
Destination Bristol welcomes you, your writers, editors and travel teams to discover more of the reasons behind Bristol's current success. We are certain your readers and audiences will enjoy hearing about Bristol as an exciting short break destination, whether it be in search of family fun, luxury and indulgence, urban adventure or a green city escape. Bristol has something for everyone and every interest.