Top ten places to visit in 2009 includes Bristol

Bristol has the distinction of being Britain’s only city to be included on an international travel guide’s list of top places to see in the coming year.

The city in England’s West Country was chosen over other cities that may have seemed more likely choices, including Bath, Edinburgh and Oxford, for example, to make its way on the DK Eyewitness Travel Guides ‘Top 10 Cities for 2009′.

Others on the list include South Africa’s Cape Town and Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. Some lesser-known cities were also featured on the list, such as Gdansk, Poland and Vilnius, Lithuania.

While Bristol, with a population of 416,000, lacks a trademark attraction such as Edinburgh Castle or the Royal Crescent in Bath, but Anna Paynton of DK Eyewitness Travel Guides commented that the city had been selected due to its variety in character.

Paynton said: “Bristol is often overlooked in favour of its more picturesque neighbour Bath, which tends to get a lot more attention. The book says that if you haven’t been to Bristol, though, you really should. The different pockets of the city have their individual charms and that’s why we included it in DK’s 2009 list. It’s a great city and one which has undergone quite a few changes over the last few years.”

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