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Cockburn Town is the country's capital, but don't expect to find a bustling city. Although the government has spent a great deal to smarten the place up, it hasn't brought in the masses, with most of the tourists still coming here for diving more than sightseeing. Comprising a couple of streets of nineteenth-century homes and warehouses, it's rare to find much activity and the streets are often empty. Stroll down the main drags of Duke Street and Front Street, which run alongside the gorgeous blue ocean, and you might encounter a gaggle of smartly dressed children making their way to school or a languid cow munching from some overhanging foliage. The island's architectural highlights are centered on these two streets. At the southern end of Front Street, the Salt Raker Inn and Turks Head Hotel , two of Grand Turk's best hotels, are fine examples of the wooden houses built in the 1840s by Bermudian shipwrights who came to the island to collect salt.
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Other colorful examples like the General Post Office line this area of Front Street, many of them constructed with ballast and timbers taken from the trading ships of the time, and covered with purple and orange bougainvillea, as well as the occasional Turk's-head cactus, recognizable by its red fez-shaped flower.
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