Built in the 1920s in a Romanesque architectural style, this is the premier Catholic church in Guyana.
Roman Catholic Cathedral
Georgetown
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Nearby Georgetown attractions
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The distinctive neo-Gothic City Hall, inaugurated in 1889, has a 23m tower where colonial-period wives apparently watched for their husbands' ships to…
0.38 MILES
The most impressive building in town is the white-painted, Gothic-style St George's Cathedral, said to be the world's tallest wooden building. It was…
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An old-fashioned institution documenting the nation's cultural, social and political history via some odd artifacts and very old stuffed critters.
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7. Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology
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A small museum in a breezy old building, with lots of Amerindian items from Guyana's indigenous peoples.
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This gorgeous wooden building, erected in 1877, is home to the National Art Gallery and rotating art exhibits, many by local artists. To get here from the…