Penzance is a civil parish and port town in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, UK. Granted various Royal Charters from 1512 onwards and incorporated in 1614, it has a population of 21,168 people and is currently Penwith's principal town. Situated in the shelter of the Mount's Bay, the town faces southeast onto the English Channel, is bordered to the west by the fishing port of Newlyn and stretches towards the small town of Marazion in the east. The town's location gives it a subtropical climate that is warmer than most of the rest of Britain.

Attractions

Places of interest in Penzance include:

• Penlee House.
• The sub-tropical Morrab Gardens, notable for their range of tender trees and shrubs, many of which cannot be grown outdoors anywhere else in the UK.
• Regency and Georgian terraces and houses.
• Chapel Street, Penzance's former main street, featuring the Egyptian House, The Union Hotel (the site of a Georgian theatre), The Turks Head Inn, The Admiral Benbow pub and The Branwell House, where the mother and aunt of the famous Brontë sisters once lived. Chapel Street is reputed to be the second most haunted street in Great Britain {fact}.

Also of interest is the seafront with its promenade and the open-air seawater Jubilee Bathing Pool (one of the oldest surviving Art Deco swimming baths in the country), built at the beginning of the 20th century during Penzance's heyday as a fashionable seaside resort.