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the urge for over-gentrification and still boasts the kind of rough-edged authenticity Corn-
wall's daintier towns lost long ago.
Like Truro and Falmouth, Penzance's wealth was founded largely on the booming mari-
time trade of the 18th and 19th centuries, and there are some fine Georgian and Regency
townhouses dotted around town, especially along Chapel St and Queen St; look out for the
extraordinary Egyptian House, which looks like a cross between a Georgian townhouse
and an Egyptian sarcophagus, and was originally built for a wealthy local mineralogist,
John Lavin, as a geological museum.
