From Lynton to Bath

Spending the night at the Fernery was absolutely great, it felt like I was spending some time in Heaven, thanks to Jo's suggestions and amazing breakfast this morning.

It is another long day of visits in front of me

Let's start with Glastonbury. The abbey was founded in the 7th century and enlarged in the 10th. It was destroyed by a major fire in 1184, but subsequently rebuilt and by the 14th century was one of the richest and most powerful monasteries in England.
From at least the 12th century the Glastonbury area has been associated with the legend of King Arthur, a connection promoted by medieval monks who asserted that Glastonbury was Avalon. Christian legends have claimed that the abbey was founded by Joseph of Arimathea in the 1st century.

Pilgrim visits had fallen and in 1191 the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's tomb in the cemetery provided fresh impetus for visiting Glastonbury. The abbot commissioned a search, discovering at the depth of 5 m a massive hollowed oak trunk containing two skeletons. Above it, under the covering stone, was a leaden cross with the unmistakably specific inscription Hic jacet sepultus inclitus rex Arthurus in insula Avalonia ("Here lies interred the famous King Arthur on the Isle of Avalon")...

One mile away from the Abbey is the Tor, a hill with an old roofless Church on the summit.
The Tor seems to have been called Ynys yr Afalon (meaning "The Isle of Avalon") by the Britons and is believed by some, including the 12th and 13th century writer Gerald of Wales, to be the Avalon of Arthurian legend.

You can believe in legends or not but what is sure is that the view from there is worth the climb.

Then I am up to Wells, to visit the Cathedral, built in the 12th and 13th centuries. The architecture inside the Church is absolutely unique, it gives the feeling that it is very modern in spite of the fact that it was designed and achieved more than 700 years ago

Apart from this beautiful building, Wells is a very nice little town, you can feel that it has a soul.

Tonight, I will sleep in Bath. The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquæ Sulis ("the waters of Sulis") c. AD 60 when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then.
In the 18th century, new quarters in streets and squares were built, with identical limestone façades, which gives an impression of palatial scale and classical decorum.