Bristol is the home of Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run and Pirates!
- Bristol’s a big hitter when it comes to tech and innovation. At the heart of the Silicon Gorge Triangle, we’re #5 in Europe when it comes to top tech, innovation, and research and brands including Just Eat, Sony, Amazon and Oracle call our city home.
- Bristol has its own accent, anyway. Bristolian is a very special dialect – one of the closest live accents to ancient English – and includes some unique words and phrases.
- Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and county in South West England. It is England’s sixth and the United Kingdom’s eighth most populous city, and the most populous city in Southern England after London. The city borders the Unitary Authority areas of North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with the historic cities of Bath and Gloucester to the south-east and north-east, respectively.
- Bristol itself is a major hub of social and cultural activity in the UK, with vibrant art and live music scene, great restaurants and a thriving economy.
- In 2015 Bristol was the first UK city to win the European Green Capital award, while The Sunday Times newspaper named Bristol the best city to live in Britain on account of its culture, nightlife and proximity to beautiful countryside.
