Cornwall in 5 days

A granite island reached from Marazion by a causeway the tide covers twice daily, once a priory, home to the St Aubyn family since 1659.

A granite fishing town with four beaches and a light that has drawn painters since the 1880s, including Barbara Hepworth, whose studio is open.

An open-air theatre dug by hand into the cliff above Porthcurno by Rowena Cade and her gardener from 1931, opening with The Tempest in 1932.

Sixty-metre granite cliffs at mainland England's western tip; walk ten minutes along the coast path, away from the attractions, for empty coves and cormorants.

Dark green serpentine rocks veined with red rise from white sand on the Lizard peninsula, with caves and arches to explore at low tide.

Two giant biomes opened in 2001 in a former clay pit near St Austell, one rainforest, one Mediterranean, plus a 660-metre zip wire.

A harbour town on the Camel estuary, known for seafood since Rick Stein opened here in 1975, and the start of the Camel Trail.

Ruins of Richard of Cornwall's 13th-century castle on the headland where Geoffrey of Monmouth placed King Arthur's conception, above an early medieval royal settlement.