The seafront city on the border with Cornwall, built around the most important commercial and military harbour in South-West England, it was the gateway to the New World. It is now a thriving modern city with many cultural attractions.

• The 17th century harbour of the Barbican is where Drake, the Pilgrim Fathers, Darwin and James Cook set sail from. Now Plymouth is a modern post war city, with some of the most modern attractions of the 20th and 21st century
• The National Marine Aquarium - the first aquarium in the UK and now one of the most exciting modern educational centres to learn about oceans and man's relationships with the marine life
• The Dome, an excellent interactive modelling of the history of Plymouth
• The City Museum and Art Gallery on Drake's Circus

• Morwhellam Quay - dress up in Victorian costumes and see re-live the world of the re-created Victorian river port
• The City of Exeter, with its Roman foundations, historic Cathedral and maritime museum on the river Exe
• The largest satellite Earth station for telecommunications in the world
• Mount Edgecumbe House and Gardens. Take a boat in Plymouth harbour and visit the earliest landscaped garden in Cornwall, in beautiful grounds overlooking Plymouth Sound
• Cross the border into Cornwall and visit one of the many cultural sites there