Bristol (Reino Unido)

"Brístol es una ciudad y autoridad unitaria de Inglaterra (Reino Unido) y uno de los dos centros administrativos del suroeste de Inglaterra (el otro es la ciudad de Plymouth). Desde sus inicios, su prosperidad ha estado ligada al puerto de Brístol, el puerto comercial que dio origen al centro de la ciudad. Brístol es la octava ciudad de Inglaterra y la undécima del Reino Unido en población. Durante medio siglo fue la segunda ciudad en población después de Londres, posición que perdió por el rápido ascenso de Liverpool, Mánchester y Birmingham a finales de 1780. En el mundo existen otras 34 ciudades llamadas "Bristol", mayormente en Estados Unidos, pero también en Perú, Canadá, Jamaica y Costa Rica, todas conmemorando a la original. La ciudad fue premiada con el título Capital Verde Europea 2015."

"Bristol (/brstl/) is a city, unitary authority area and county in South West England with an estimated population of 449,300 in 2016. 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. Iron Age hill forts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers Frome and Avon, and around the beginning of the 11th century the settlement was known as Brycgstow (Old English "the place at the bridge"). Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was in Gloucestershire until 1373, when it became a county. From the 13th to the 18th century, Bristol was among the top three English cities after London (with York and Norwich) in tax receipts. Bristol was surpassed by the rapid rise of Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham during the Industrial Revolution. Bristol was a starting place for early voyages of exploration to the New World. On a ship out of Bristol in 1497 John Cabot, a Venetian, became the first European since the Vikings to land on mainland North America. In 1499 William Weston, a Bristol merchant, was the first Englishman to lead an exploration to North America. The Port of Bristol has since moved from Bristol Harbour in the city centre to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth and Royal Portbury Dock. Bristol's modern economy is built on the creative media, electronics and aerospace industries, and the city-centre docks have been redeveloped as centres of heritage and culture. The city has two universities, the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol and a variety of artistic and sporting organisations and venues including the Royal West of England Academy, the Arnolfini, Spike Island, Ashton Gate and the Memorial Stadium. It is connected to London and other major UK cities by road, rail, sea and air by the M5 and M4 (which connect to the city centre by the Portway and M32), Bristol Temple Meads and Bristol Parkway mainline rail stations, and Bristol Airport. One of the UK's most popular tourist destinations, Bristol was selected in 2009 as one of the world's top ten cities by international travel publishers Dorling Kindersley in their Eyewitness series of travel guides. In 2014 The Sunday Times named it as the best city in Britain in which to live, and Bristol also won the EU's European Green Capital Award in 2015."