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In the great rush to hit the beaches or start tramping over moorland, the Southwest’s cities and towns are too often overlooked.

• Bath Abbey Church Yard. The perfect sampler of Bath’s charms – the Roman Baths, the medieval cathedral and the Georgian Pump Room, all within a few square metres, here

• Exeter Cathedral. In a region not exactly short of glorious medieval architecture, the virtuoso fan vaulting of St Peter’s soars above the competition, here

• The National Maritime Museum, Falmouth. The country’s premiere collection of small boats provides a fascinating overview of Cornwall’s long and distinguished seafaring history, here

• Plymouth’s Barbican. Amid all the modern, faceless post-war architecture, the Barbican is Plymouth’s salty heart, a narrow, cobbled jumble of Tudor and Jacobean buildings from where, in 1620, the Plymouth Pilgrims set out for the New World, here

SS Great Britain, Bristol

Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall

• SS Great Britain. Once the biggest ship in the world and a towering icon of the industrial age, the Brunel-designed SS Great Britain can be seen in all its metallic majesty in dry dock next to Bristol’s Floating Harbour, here

• Tate Gallery St Ives. A treat for lovers of art and architecture, the great spaceship-like gallery examines the work and influence of the St Ives school and hosts regularly changing displays of 20th-century art, here