SPECIAL DESTINATION PORTHCURNO A beautiful bay in west Cornwall, with even more to it than meets the eye. Porthcurno, from the Cornish for ‘the port of Cornwall’, is an arresting, sand-lined cove in the county’s far west, a little further round the coast from Penzance. A stunningly beautiful spot, two noted associations mark Porthcurno out as being of particular significance. The first is all about connections. This seemingly remote cove was once the very epicentre of global communications, where the huge telegraph cables that stretched to the far corners of the empire came ashore. Today, you can still visit the Telegraph Museum and go inside the tunnels built to protect
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the communications equipment from aerial bombardment in WWII – a fantastic family day out. The second is the Minack Theatre, a true wonder of the modern world, the Mecca of open-air theatre. Resembling the ruin of an ancient Roman amphitheatre carved out of the cliff-edge, here you can enjoy performances of everything from Shakespeare to the Fisherman’s Friends. Besides the golden sand of the bay, Porthcurno is also the perfect introduction to the South West Coast Path, to explore the miles of fantastic coastline.
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