I visited a beautiful 2,000-year-old UK site - 1 thing made it Britain's best attraction

Every weekend until the end of August, the Roman Baths in Bath, Somerset, have something unique on offer. As well as evening visits to the museum and bathing site that dates back 2,000 years to Roman Britain, tourists can relax with a drink and chilled music by the great bath to really soak in the experience. I visited the iconic British site for this Summer Lates event and I was blown away by the experience.

I had never been to Bath before and knowing it was a UNESCO World Heritage Site, I was eager to visit the city's iconic tourist attraction and learn all about what life would have been like in Roman England. The experience is included in a regular museum ticket on the days it happens, giving you more bang for your buck on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and the August Bank Holiday Monday. The museum was a fascinating experience and I loved seeing all of the ancient relics and learning all about the history of the baths.

But the real treat came when I got to the great bath, as I grabbed myself a local beer and sat by the water and listened to the chilled out latin music being sun by the DJs. What I appreciated was how the DJs were on one end of the bath with a simple setup. They weren't the attraction, but they added greatly to the experience.

Chilling by the baths, enjoying a drink and sitting with the information I had just learned in the museum, this was by far the best museum experience I've had in the UK. Like many people, I quite often get museum fatigue. You know the feeling. You walk around a museum and read so much that you start to feel sleepy.

However, the museum experience only lasted around 45 minutes and while the information was still fresh in my head, I got to sit in the site that I had just learned about. I spoke to the curator of the music, Stu Matson, director of Bath Carnival and founder of the Carnifunk DJ Collective, who described the vision, how it came to life, and how it has been achieved. "The setting is really unique and it's obviously really beautiful, but it does come with its challenges in terms of the acoustics," he said.

"It's a really nice, warm, rich sound here. With the programming, we've tried to mirror that with the choice of selectors and the music they'll play; really warm, Latin, afro-vibe. We were never trying to create a dancefloor. We were trying to reflect that environment of swell time, sitting down, relaxing, enjoying the ambience. The idea is that you can sit down and soak it up for hours at a time.

"Without the music, you're probably going to leave in five or ten minutes once you've done a few laps. But we're finding people spending over an hour here. You probably get an experience more reflective of what it would have been like at the time, as opposed to a solely informative guide experience. We wanted people to have the best of both worlds."

While Stu wanted to create an experience akin to 'listening bars' he had visited in Europe, the heritage team was keen to connect visitors with the Roman Baths in a way that immerses them in the history. I also spoke to Amanda Hart, Director of Archaeology at the Roman Baths, who explained how the history is being brought to life as the team thinks "more widely about how the Baths would have operated back in Roman times".

She revealed: "It's a completely different way of experiencing the baths. You're seeing it at its best. It's beautiful in the evening, especially as the sun starts to go down and you have lamps lit by the Great Bath. It's a different way to appreciate the monument. I'm pretty sure that people would have been there socialising. People wanted to be seen at the public baths, to hang out, to chat to friends, do business, and possibly listen to some music."

Amanda added: "I envision it as having been a bustling place with lots of activity, lots of noise, almost, I suppose, if you imagine a modern leisure centre. We were tapping into that social element that some of the Roman writers actually talk about."

Amanda said that Summer Lates is an experimental event as the team tries to diversify their offerings for visitors. The response, she revealed, has been "fantastic", with the element of music helping people to experience the baths in a new way.

For me, Amanda and Stu's vision very much came to life. I can find museums quite tiresome work sometimes, but this connected me to the history in a way no other tourist attraction ever has.