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New Year's Eve in Cornwall Events

New Year's Eve in Cornwall

Ring in the New Year in inimitable style with Cornwall’s top schedule of celebrations set to take you into 2018 with memorable aplomb. Whether you prefer a pub-crawl, fancy dress party, fireworks on the beach or a spot of fine dining and dancing – you’ll find something and somewhere to suit your celebratory mood.

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Pirates on the Prom, Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th August Things to do

Pirates on the Prom, Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th August

Six years ago, the Penzance seafront was awash with a motley crew hell bent on World Record domination. 8,734 ordinary folk (and several dogs) donned stripy shirts, eye-patches and brandished cutlasses, to make both Guinness history and a treasure trove of money for charity. It was like walking onto a film set. Some looked so convincing you’d have sworn they’d stepped straight off the Black Pearl.

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Golowan 2017 Events

Golowan 2017

Celebrating midsummer and the Feast of St John, Golowan is set to take over the town for ten days in June, from Friday 16th until Sunday 25th, and is just one of the many reasons Penzance has so much to offer visitors and Penwithians alike.

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Kernewek Festival and St Piran’s Day Events

Kernewek Festival and St Piran’s Day

Part of the attraction of holidaying abroad can be experiencing a very different language and culture. The same goes if your destination is Cornwall. Considered an integral part of Cornish identity, culture and heritage, Kernewek was the native tongue spoken

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Eureka Escape Cornwall Things to do

Eureka Escape Cornwall

The team at Aspects are always up for a bit of fun, so when the recently opened Eureka Escape asked if we would like to do some team building in their Real Life Escape Rooms in Penzance, we jumped at

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The Man Engine, steaming across Cornwall July 25th – August 6th  Things to do

The Man Engine, steaming across Cornwall July 25th – August 6th 

What’s 4.5 metres high, weighs nearly 40 tonnes, and will be travelling 130 miles down the granite spine of Cornwall over the coming fortnight? Only the biggest, maddest, mechanical puppet ever to have been built in Britain, that’s what. The

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Penzance Literary Festival – 6th – 9th July 2016 Events

Penzance Literary Festival – 6th – 9th July 2016

A warm welcome is promised at what has been billed as ‘the friendliest lit fest in the UK’. Now in its seventh year, there are dozens of events crammed into four days, held in eight undercover venues throughout the town.

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Jubilee Pool Places to visit

Jubilee Pool

Cornwall is known for its glorious beaches, but if swimming and sunning is your thing then a visit to Penzance’s magnificent Jubilee Pool is an absolute must. Built just a stone’s throw from the harbour, on a traditional bathing spot

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Golowan Festival 2016 Arts and Culture

Golowan Festival 2016

For something wonderfully Cornish centric and utterly unique to the far west’s particular brand of Celtic heritage – Penzance‘s Golowan Festival is a fabulously unforgettable experience. Named after the Cornish language word for the Midsummer celebrations, it’s a unique and

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A day trip to the Scillies Places to visit

A day trip to the Scillies

There are lots of magical places to visit in Cornwall, but the most exotic one has to be the Isles of Scilly. An archipelago of five main islands and hundreds of smaller uninhabited islets and rocky outcrops, its status as

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May Day celebrations Arts and Culture

May Day celebrations

Heralding the end of winter and the arrival of spring, May Day is commonly observed throughout Europe and beyond. In north Cornwall the ancient ‘Obby ‘Oss festival in Padstow on May 1st sees the village awash with up to 30,000

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Montol Festival | 21 December 2014 Arts and Culture

Montol Festival | 21 December 2014

Masked revellers marauding through the streets, fiery braziers, torch-lit mayhem, music and merriment and strange beasts… celebrating the winter solstice and the return of the light on the shortest day of the year, this is Montol. From its anarchic debut

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