Kadina Town Centre

Kadina is the commercial hub of the Copper Triangle, the largest of the three "Little Cornwall" towns and the one with the grandest main-street architecture. Wide streets are lined with substantial stone buildings from the copper boom — banks, hotels and institutes built when the field was at its richest.

The town is home to the quirky Banking and Currency Museum, set in a former bank, as well as the Farm Shed Museum on its edge. Heritage walks thread past landmarks like the Matta House and the grand institute, and the town comes alive every two years for the Kernewek Lowender Cornish festival, billed as the largest of its kind in the world.

Use Kadina as your base for exploring the triangle — it has the services, the cafes and the deepest concentration of boom-era streetscape.