Sign in Using FacebookPenzance Guide » Penzance Attractions & Activities » Penzance Sightseeing
Penzance Attractions & ActivitiesSightseeing
Our Sightseeing category provides a feast for the eyes. Why? Because most all of our selections are famous places that you can view and take pictures of to show everyone back home. Landmarks, sculptures, historic homes, historic districts, cemeteries, water fountains, and statues are just a hint of the sights we've selected.
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Penzance TR20 8XA
Located just three miles outside of Penzance, the Chysauster Ancient Village is a ghostly collection of ancient houses and buildings that date back to the second century BC. True history buffs and romantics alike will enjoy gazing at the assortment of stone dwellings, including ancient hearths and drainage systems, and imagining what families...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Pendeen, Penzance TR19 7EW
Want to find out what the area's industrial and mining past was like? The Geevor Tin Mine (fully operational until 1990) and Museum does a good job of giving guests a glimpse into how miners worked and how mines operated. Tour the mining museum and watch an educational film, explore the surface operations of the once booming plant, and visit a...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Penzance
The Isles of Scilly are located just 28 miles southwest of Land's End and can be reached by both plane and ferry boat from Penzance. The Isles are a collection of five inhabited islands named St. Mary's, Tresco, St. Martin's, St. Agnes, and Bryher. The Isles offer guests a variety of excursion opportunities like sandy beaches, nature trails, pubs...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Land's End, Cornwall, Penzance
Want to go to the end of the world? Well, you almost can when you venture down to Land's End �; the southwestern-most point in all of the UK. From here, you can view the dramatic scenery of jagged cliffs, rolling ocean, and birds on the wing. A tourist complex houses a state of the art audio-visual theater that entertains guests by regaling...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: #25 Chapel St, Penzance
Literature lovers and Bronte afficionados must surely make a visit to 25 Chapel Street �; home to the mother of some of the most storied female writers in history, the Bronte sisters. Situated next to the Egyptian House, an ornately decorated historic building, you will find the unimposing home of Maria Branwell. The home dates back to the...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: NW of Penzance, Penzance
With a name that means "stone of the hole," these ancient stones have become shrouded in mystery as to their original meaning and use. Men-An-Tol is a collection of stones, the central focus of which is a round one with a hole in the middle. One of the fabled legends of the stones includes that of young ones being ushered through the hole in the...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Minack Theatre, Penzance TR19 6JU
When sitting in this Roman style, open-air theatre, you feel as if you are perched atop the world! Virtually carved out of the side of a cliff, the sea provides the backdrop for the stage. Throughout the summer season, various singing and acting groups perform works by such greats as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mozart, Dickens, and Gilbert and...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: 1 mile southeast of Falmouth, Penzance
If you are heading up to Falmouth for an excursion, be sure to plan on visiting Pendennis Castle. This grand structure was built by Henry VIII in the middle of the 16th century to keep the French from encroaching on his shores. Walk the stairwells of this imposing castle and envision life as it was back then. Enjoy the discovery center and...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: Marazion, Cornwall
Located about three miles east of Penzance, St. Michael's Mount is an awesome site to behold: a grand castle resting atop a secluded island near Maraizon. At high tide, the Mount can be reached only by ferry, but at low tide, guests can follow a granite walkway out to the imposing castle and beautiful grounds. The structure has been used as a...
Category: Sightseeing - Penzance Attractions & Activities
Address: B3315 south from Newlyn, Penzance
If you are a history buff or an archaeology lover, you will enjoy the countryside around Penzance as ancient stone formations and inscriptions abound. One of the more interesting of these sites includes 19 upright stones arranged in a circle and dubbed The Merry Maidens. Folklore has it that these stones were once human maidens caught dancing on...
