My City Bardstown

Bardstown, Kentucky is a wonderfu place to visit if you are interested in historic buildings, bourbon, history, antiques, restaurants that lack variety, but are always good.

Maker's Mark distillery is not far from here. Neither is Heaven Hill. They have a nice tour also. You can do both in a day, but you'll want to spend time at each. Jim Beam is only fifteen miles to the west of town.

Bardstown was the second town in Kentucky after Harrodsburg. And the Civil Warpassed throgh here too. Make a point of stopping at the Civil War Museum, as it is right next to the Old Bardstown Village, which is a reacreation of a settlement from the colonial period.

St. Joseph's Proto-Cathdralis just blocks from the center of town, and I sent you with that link to it's history, because that's the most interesting thing on the site. Touring it is the only way to experience the calmness. Not far north of town is the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. Their campus is beautiful, and they care for all their retired sisters there, also.

Twelve miles south of town is the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. They are Cistercian-Trappist monks, and is was the home of the famouse spiritual author Thomas Merton.

Now after that you're going to want to do some eating. Bardstown is blessed with some good Mexican food, but very little else in the way of national, or ethnic, cuisine. We have Mamy's Kitchen where country cookin' makes ya good lookin'. If you eat there you must have the World's Best Grilled Cheese Sandwich, because it is. Rincon Mexicano has be best Margarhita I have ever tasted. I have tasted many.

Of course we have places to stay. First is Beautiful Dreamer, directly across from Federal Hill, also known as My Old Kentucky Home. The Jailers Inn has some ghostly inhabitant I hear, if that interets you. Rosemark Havenis pretty sweet place, and they have their own restaurant.

All in all, you should come to Bardstown because it's a nice town where we've tried to keep the old style in the historic district, and most little towns in the interest of progress destroyed theirs. We have ours, Come see it.

Now before you go visit the tourism site. They'll tell ya everything you need to know.