The beautiful coastal walks around the county of Cornwall are truly breathtaking with its rugged cliffs, sandy beaches and sheltered fishing coves - there is nowhere quite like it.

 The Minack Theatre - an Award-Winning Day Out 

We've always thought that the unique Minack Theatre at Porthcurno, west Cornwall , was something quite special - now we have actual proof that it is! 
The stunning outdoor theatre, carved into the rock of a cliff face and boasting fantastic panoramic sea views, has been voted the Best Day Out by Travelmail readers in the Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2009.

 

The Minack Theatre, imagined and created by a Victorian girl who bought the Minack headland in the 1920s for £100, has weekly performances between Easter and October each year. It is also open for day visitors throughout the year. Tickets can be booked via the theatre's website or by calling 01736 810694. 

http://www.chycor.co.uk/tourism/gardensincornwall/index.htm A great site to see most of the beautiful gardens in the West of Cornwall.
Recommended - Trevarno Manor Gardens, Glendurgan Garden and Trebah Garden

www.101-things-to-do-on-a-rainy-day-in-cornwall.co.uk  A fantastic site for holiday makers visiting Cornwall and in need of entertainment ideas for a rainy day.

RNAS Culdrose Air Day. This annual event, taking place in Helston on Wednesday 28 July, is a must for anyone interested in aviation. As well as flying displays, there will be interactive exhibitions and a wide range of shops and stalls.

'HOMER the turtle' is the latest attraction at the Blue Reef Aquarium at Newquay.

Penzance P1 Worl Powerboat Races 22nd and 23rd May 2010

Stithians Agricultural Show. One of the largest and oldest one day shows in the country, Stithians Show takes place on Monday 12th July. The event includes cattle shows, steam and vintage vehicles, a fairground and trade stands.

FALMOUTH WEEK 7th to 14th August 2010

 

The Boating Lake at Helston.

 

The Gardens of Cornwall

 

A holiday in the "garden capital of the world," Cornwall, is a horticulturist's dream. It offers greenery styles for everyone, from young kids to jaded historians, in sizes that range from miniature gardens to hectares of orchards and nurseries. Open your eyes to the beauty of nature on your Cornwall holiday.

Plants from all over the globe can be seen at the Eden Project, a group of enormous, domed greenhouses, and the largest of its kind in the world. There are unique biomes within, with each having a distinct climate and the corresponding species. There are loads of activities for the family at Eden. Summer brings a series of concerts where the likes of Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, and the Pet Shop Boys have performed. Spring is the time for the Sexy Green Car Show, where the latest, coolest, and most eco-friendly vehicles are thrust in the limelight. During autumn, visitors with green thumbs can help pot seedlings for next spring. Winter brings the Time of Gifts festival with a Christmas market, choir performances, and lantern parades

TREVARNO GARDENS, Helston. Privatly owned Tudor and Stuart Grade 1 mansion complete with Elizabethan stables.
Surrounded by formal gardens (c.1500), orchards and bluebell woods.

GODOLPHIN HOUSE AND GARDENS Godolphin Cross Helston
The house has an example of an early 13C - 15C side garden. Also a compartmented 4.5 acre, nine square garden with raised walk surrounding it. The walled King's Garden 15C next to the state apartments. Privatly owned Tudor and Stuart Grade 1 mansion complete with Elizabethan stables.Surrounded by formal gardens (c.1500), orchards and bluebell woods.

ST. MICHAEL'S MOUNT, House and Gardens, Marizion, Penzance.
The jewel in Cornwall's crown, this magical island has a church, a medieval castle (home of the St Aubyn family for over 300 years), an exotic garden clinging to the steep flanks, and an ancient harbour where you will find shops, restaurants and an audio-visual presentation on the history of the Mount.

POLDOWRIAN, Coverack, Helston.
Woodland garden created among natural wild plants with a spectacular cliff top views with a pre-historic museum which is opened on request.

TRENGWAINTON, Nr Penzance.
Following a stream, this intimate woodland garden with its rich collection of rhododendrons, magnolias and camellias leads up to a terrace with splendid views of Mount's Bay. Walled gardens contain tender species not seen elsewhere on mainland Britain.

BONYTHON, Cury Cross Lanes, Helston
A 15 acre garden within a valley with 3 lakes and formal walled garden. Includes a camelia woodland, set in a disused quarry.

TREBAH Twenty-six acre, steeply wooded ravine garden falls 200 feet from the eighteenth-century house down to the beach & river. Glades of huge sub-tropical tree ferns and palms mingle with giant gunnera, furcraea and echium, and over all is the great rolling canopy of 100 year old rhododendrons and a multitude of trees and shrubs with everchanging colour and scent....

GLENDURGAN Set in a wooded valley dropping steeply to the hamlet of Durgan on the shore of the beautiful Helford estuary, Glendurgan is one of the great sub-tropical gardens of the South West. Exotic trees and shrubs flourish amidst open glades carpeted with wild flowers...

THE EDEN PROJECT.Cornwall's best known attraction. The site consists of 2 vast landscaped space age greenhouses, or biomes, containing a variety of temperate and tropical plants.

THEME PARKS

CORNISH CAMELS are just down the road from Anhay Farm and Cornish Yurts.

PARADISE PARK An award winning bird park around sheltered Victorian walled garden with "Parrot Jungle" and "Australian Aviary" features...

FLAMBARDS Rides,amusements and activites. Exhibitions- Victorian Village, Britain in the Blitz and Memory Lane....

CORNISH HERITAGE and SCENIC

The engine house of the Levant mine, famous for its rich undersea deposits of both copper and tin, is situated on a cliff edge five miles from Lands End 

Poldark Mine is located in the picturesque Wendron Valley, close to Helston, Poldark Mine has free admission to the main site and offers something for all the family

Geevor Tin Mine, situated on the Atlantic Coast of the far west of Cornwall, is the largest preserved mining site in the United Kingdom

Porthcurno Telegraph Museum records the history of the telegraph station and the defensive tunnels built to house it during the Second World War

Pendennis Castle Falmouth, was built in the middle of the 16th century by Henry VIII as one of a pair of forts, with St Mawes Castle, to protect the Fal Estuary from the threat of invasion from France and Spain. There is also 'SHIPS AND CASTLES' a water park adjacent.
The Tate Gallery St Ives opened in June 1993 in a purpose-built building with five galleries offering an introduction to modern art, with special emphasis on the St Ives School of Art.

The National Maritime Museum Falmouth provides an interactive display of boats and their various functions in industry and recreation.

Land's End, with its rugged wave battered cliffs, is the most westerly point in mainland England and the most visited outdoor tourist attraction in Cornwall

THE ISLES OF SCILLY can be visited by helicoptor from Penzance or plane from St Just Airport. The Sillonian also sails daily during the summer.

 

Views from Trencrom Hill 

Coverack Harbour and Beach

Kynance Cove, The Lizard

 

 

The Lizard

Botallack Mine, St Just

  The picturesque Herford River

Men an tol  stone (ancient sacred site) Penwith.