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Botanical Gardens
Georgetown's Botanical Gardens are worth visiting for plants but also for bird-watching.
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Botanical Gardens Zoo
The garden's zoo is a depressing collection not recommended for animal lovers. The only highlight is the manatees that swim in the zoo canal, offering remarkably close glimpses of these shy creatures.
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Georgetown Seawall
To be frank, the seawall, which is touted as being the city's protection against flooding, wasn't all that effective in the floods of 2005. However, it is a popular spot with the locals and a great spot for people- and animal-watching (if you're lucky you might spot a cow).
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Museum of Guyana
The Museum of Guyana is a curious institution with some very old-fashioned exhibits documenting the nation's cultural, social, and political history.
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National Library
Designed by Leonard Percival Hodge, the National Library has a long history of serving the community. It offers a lending service for prisoners and will be celebrating its centenary in 2009.
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Parliament Building
At the south end of Ave of the Republic is the well-kept Dutch period Parliament Building, built in 1834.
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Square of the Revolution
The open court on the block south of the botanical gardens is the Square of the Revolution, which houses the monument to Cuffy, famous leader and hero of the 1763 rebellion on the Berbice sugar estate; the unusual statue which exaggerates the proportions of the human form, is characteristic of Western Africa.
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St George's Cathedral
The most impressive building in town is Anglican, Gothic-style St George's Cathedral, said to be the world's tallest wooden building. It was completed in 1892 and was built mostly with local materials, most notably a hardwood called greenheart.
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Stabroek Market
The landmark Stabroek Market is housed in a cast-iron building with a corrugated-iron clock tower. This main shopping venue, once described as quite a 'bizarre bazaar,' dates back to the late 1700s although the current structure was built in 1880. Pigs, pineapple, shoes - you will find it all here.
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State House
Built in 1825, the State House is the president's official residence. The building's design features the Demerara shutters that are typical of Georgetown's colonial architecture.
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Town Hall
This distinctive neo-Gothic building with its 23m (75ft) tower looks like Disneyland to some, but is one of Georgetown's most historic sights. It was apparently the spot where colonial-period wives watched for their husbands' ships to come into port.
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Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology
The first such museum in the English-speaking Caribbean.
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