Eden Project
Bodelva
St. Austell
PL24 2SG
tel: 01726-811911
fax: 01726-811912
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Eden is a gateway into a fascinating world of plants. Its home is a dramatic global garden the size of thirty football pitches, nestling like a lost world in a crater overlooking St Austell Bay. One of its giant conservatories is a majestic rainforest cathedral, discover here the tropical plants found in products you use every day. The slightly smaller is home to the plants of the Mediterranean and the flowers of South Africa and California. Walk amongst the orange and lemon trees and take in those holiday smells. Outside crescent-shaped terraces tell the story of plants that have changed the world and those which could change our future too.
The whole family will delight in the unique experience, although it is advisable to plan a visit carefully as the garden is enormously popular, attracting over 1.8 million visitors last year, but wherever you are in the world you will instantly recognise this spectacular place, with its stunning architecture and breathtaking living plant collection, as the Eden project, Cornwall.
Historic Charlestown
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The Shipwreck and historical artefacts on display in the centre are the largest private collection of this type on public display in Europe.
Brought together over the last 45 to 50 years, it forms the basis of one of the most unusual and interesting collections open to the public.
There are countless items from a bygone age as well as artefacts from over 150 shipwrecks
The many and varied exhibitions reflect village life in Charlestown, it's history, shipwrecks and the once thriving China Clay industry. The exhibition shows a tremendous range of maritime history dating back to 1715 and one of the largest underwater diving equipment collections in the country, including various suits used for treasure seeking and naval purposes. |
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The Lost Gardens of Heligan
Over 200 acres of superb working Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds together with a magnificent complex of walled gardens. Summerhouses, lawns, lakes and ponds, huge productive gardens and fruithouses, and 22-acre subtropical jungle, are just some of the delights of this “Sleeping Beauty”. Heligan Home Farm and pioneering Horsemoor Hide invite visitors to witness the outer estate being brought back into “good heart”.
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