Plymouth Barbican is the city’s historic heart. Visit the 16th century Merchants House Museum, or the Elizabethan House. The Mayflower Steps are the symbolic leaving point for the New World in 1620 by the Pilgrim Fathers. Also worth a visit is Plymouth Gin Distillery, England’s oldest working distillery and the National Marine Aquarium.

If you fancy a boat trip, take a cruise into Plymouth Sound and up the River Tamar, past the Devonport Royal Dockyards, with its frigates and nuclear submarines.

The Hoe is best known as the place where Sir Francis Drake was playing a game of bowls when England was about to be invaded by The Spanish Armada.

Merchants House
33 St Andrews Street, Plymouth
+44 (0) 1752 304774

Elizabethan House
32 New Street, The Barbican, Plymouth
+44 (0) 1752 304774 / 304380

Plymouth Gin Distillery
60 Southside Street
The Barbican, Plymouth PL1 2LQ
+44 (0)1752 665292
www.plymouthgin.com

National Marine Aquarium
Rope Walk, Plymouth PL4 0LF
+44 (0)1752 600 301
www.national-aquarium.co.uk

Tamar Cruising & Cremyll Ferry
Cremyll Quay, Torpoint PL10 1HX
+44 (0) 1752 822105
www.tamarcruising.com