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America’s
“Most Beautiful Small Town” Keeps Winning Awards
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Visit
Bardstown, Ky., and see what all the fuss is about
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Bardstown,
KY – April 2014 / Newsmaker Alert / Bardstown, Ky., located in central
Kentucky and known worldwide as the Bourbon Capital of the World, continues
earning accolades for its movie-set good looks, historic charm, one-of-a-kind
attractions and bustling Courthouse Square. Most recently, several Bardstown
attractions were chosen as “bests” in
Kentucky Living magazine’s
2014 reader write-in contest. Prior to that, Bardstown’s Oscar Getz Museum
of Whiskey History was named Whisky Magazine’s 2014 “Visitor Attraction
of the Year.” Visit www.SampleOurSpirit.com
to see what makes Bardstown such a superlative place to visit.
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 Bourbon
Capital of the World Earns Capital A in Awards
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Whisky
Magazine’s 2014 “Visitor Attraction of the Year”
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A 2014
“Best in Kentucky” in Kentucky Living’s reader write-in contest
in these categories:
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Best Golf
Course – Kenny Rapier Golf Course at My Old Kentucky Home State Park
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Best Annual
Festival – Kentucky Bourbon Festival , held annually in September
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Most Iconic
Kentucky Landmark – Federal Hill (aka My Old Kentucky Home) at My Old Kentucky
Home State Park
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Best Museum
– Civil War Museum of the Western Theater
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A Travel
+ Leisure 2013 “America’s Favorite Town”
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A Travel
+ Leisure 2013 “America’s Most Beautiful Town Square”
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Named
a Certified Kentucky Cultural District (one of only six Kentucky cities
to achieve the honor) – 2013
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Named
an Official Trailhead of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail® – 2013
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A 2013
“Best in Kentucky” in Kentucky Living’s reader write-in contest
in these categories:
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Best Bed
and Breakfast – Jailer’s Inn
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Best non-franchise
restaurant – Mammy’s Kitchen
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Best walking/running/bicycling
trail – Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest
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Best Kentucky
product – Maker’s Mark
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Best winery
– Chuckleberry Farm and Winery
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Rand McNally/USA
Today 2012 “Most Beautiful Small Town in America”
Home to
Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark and Jim Beam – located on the Kentucky Bourbon
Trail – plus Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery, Bardstown just keeps getting
better and better. New bourbon-related attractions add shine to Bardstown’s
downtown, where some 200 buildings are on the National Register of Historic
Places: The Bourbon Manor is a bourbon-themed bed and breakfast, cafe and
spa and the Kentucky Bourbon Marketplace offers a distinctive Bourbon Bar
& Tasting Room and upscale bourbon-related souvenirs. A new tour takes
visitors to Kentucky’s original Holy Land for things to see and do at the
Abbey of Gethsamani, Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and Basilica of St.
Joseph Proto-Cathedral.
Other
major attractions: “The Stephen Foster Story” – Kentucky’s Official Outdoor
Drama, now in its 56th year; My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, serving chef-prepared
four-course dinners while rolling through Kentucky Bourbon Country; Kentucky
Railway Museum, the only train-related attraction in the state with both
a model layout and train excursions. Add lots of locally-owned restaurants
and boutiques and 16 bed and breakfast inns and you’ve got one destination
that gives visitors plenty of reasons to visit.
Visit
www.SampleOurSpirit.com
to plan your getaway to Bardstown.
Media
Contact:
Dawn
Przystal, 800-638-4877 x 114
Bardstown-Nelson
County Tourist & Convention Commission
Photo:
Court
Square in Bardstown, Ky., the “Bourbon Capital of the World.”
Credit:
Kip McGinnis / Bardstown-Nelson County Tourist & Convention Commission
Hi-
and Low-Res photos available.
About
Bardstown, KY
Located
in the heart of Kentucky Bourbon Country and situated at the trailhead
of the famed Kentucky Bourbon Trail®, Bardstown
is more familiarly known as the “Bourbon Capital of the World.” It is home
to five distilleries, including Barton 1792 and Willett Distillery and
these three Kentucky Bourbon Trail distilleries: Heaven Hill, Maker’s Mark
and Jim Beam. Major attractions include the outdoor musical, “The Stephen
Foster Story,” My Old Kentucky Home State Park, the highly regarded Civil
War Museum of the Western Theatre, My Old Kentucky Dinner Train, The Kentucky
Railway Museum and Whisky Magazine’s Visitor Attraction of the Year
– the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Additionally, Bardstown has
four 18-hole golf courses, three wineries, two haunted tours and numerous
religious attractions. It was selected the “Most Beautiful Small Town in
America” in the Rand McNally/USA Today 2012 “Best of the Road” contest
and landed in the top 20 of “America’s Favorite Towns” by Travel + Leisure
– which also recognized Bardstown as having one of “America’s Most Beautiful
Town Squares.” In 2013, Bardstown was designated a certified Kentucky Cultural
District, one of only six Kentucky cities to achieve this honor. www.facebook.com/BardstownKY |
