Union
The Union Hotel is in the centre of Penzance. A 5-minute walk from the sea, the 17th-century building houses Hamilton’s Restaurant and also Nelson’s Bar, where there is free WiFi. Rooms at The Union Hotel retain their traditional style, many have excellent sea views of Mount's Bay, and most are en suite. All are centrally heated and have a TV, a radio and tea and coffee facilities. A full English breakfast is served in the theatre bar, visited by Charles Dickens when he stayed at the hotel. The restaurant serves homemade dishes using produce from the local area. Guests can enjoy live music at the weekends in the on-site bar. Penzance has an array of restaurants offering Cornish cuisine as well as globally influenced menus. The town’s cinema and theatre are a 2-minute walk from the hotel, with a selection of bars and coffee shops even closer.
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Penzance (Pensans in cornic language) is a British port town located in the Cornwall Peninsula, which has 21 168 inhabitants. It is the largest population of Penwith.
In the city of Penzance, the chemist Humphry Davy was born in 1778, considered the founder of the electrochemistry field, along with Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday. Davy contributed to experimentally identify for the first time several chemical elements through electrolysis, and studied the energy involved in the process.
