The esplanade and the public park are finely laid out; and portions of the sea are fenced in to protect bathers.
Near the principal entrance to the esplanade stands Argyll's Lodging, erected about 1630 by the 1st earl of Stirling.
It possesses assembly rooms, a literary and scientific institution, an esplanade, a pier and extensive recreation grounds.
An esplanade faces the sea along nearly the entire front of the town, and is lined with hotels, shops and dwelling-houses.
The site of the old town slopes sharply upward from the harbour, to the west of which there extends an esplanade and modern residential quarter; for Penzance, with its mild climate, is in considerable favour as a health resort.