Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Restored with the assistance of the BBC's Village SOS television show, Talgarth's 17th-century watermill is back in business for the first time since 1946…
Must-see attractions in Wales
Snowdonia & the Llŷn
This sombre building is the only Pentonville-style Victorian prison in Britain that's open to visitors. A free audio guide allows you to follow the…
Cardiff
This excellent little museum uses interactive displays, free audio guides, video footage and everyday objects to tell the story of Cardiff’s…
Cardiff
Between the Bristol Channel and Mermaid Quay lies a 20-acre conservation area on former dockland. Tall walls of reeds attract warblers, bunting,…
Anglesey & the North Coast
Strewn with rare plants, follies, sculptures and fountains, these historic gardens once formed part of the estate of the Lords Newborough. While the grand…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
Built before 1230 by the Princes of Gwynedd, the keep of Dolbardarn rises like a perfect chessboard rook from a green hilltop between the two lakes, Llyn…
Anglesey & the North Coast
Timber-and-plaster Aberconwy House is the town's oldest, built as one of 20 merchants' houses when the town was fortified around 1300. Over the years it…
National Beekeeping Centre Wales
Anglesey & the North Coast
This nonprofit organisation is dedicated to encouraging people to take up beekeeping. Its corner of the Bodnant Welsh Food complex has interesting…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
If you're the sort who's fascinated by dioramas and model train sets, this tiny museum is for you. In which case the model shop you have to pass through…
Southeast Wales
Like any good Roman town, Caerleon had a grand public bath complex. Parts of the outdoor swimming pool, apodyterium (changing room) and frigidarium (cold…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Distinctive flat-topped Crug Hywel (Hywel's Rock; 451m), better known as Table Mountain, rises to the north of Crickhowell and gave the town its name. You…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
After 12 years of closure, little St Tudclud's reopened in 2009 after the community rallied to save it. It isn't particularly old (1859), but inside are…
Snowdonia & the Llŷn
Staffed by committed volunteers of the best sort, this diverting little museum of local history occupies a hexagonal building retaining some of the air of…
Anglesey & the North Coast
Dolphins and porpoises can sometimes be spotted from this long, sandy, rock-fringed Blue Flag beach, 6 miles southwest of Caernarfon. The flatness of the…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
At Tywyn Wharf Station, the terminus of the Talyllyn Railway, this museum is one for steam-locomotive buffs. Its 1000-plus artefacts date as far as 200…
Wales
Spanning 90 hectares, this vast expanse follows a lush wooded valley terminating at a pebbly beach, overshot by an impressive Victorian railway viaduct…
Snowdonia & the Llŷn
This twin-towered gate, dating to the construction of the walled town in the 13th century, once commanded the main entrance to medieval Denbigh. Despite…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Looking like it's slid straight off a chess board, Bronllys' circular tower was built in 1230 on the site of an earlier Norman motte-and-bailey castle…
Southeast Wales
Built to haul coal and passengers, this railway has been restored by local volunteers, allowing you to catch a train from the town centre to Furnace…
Blaenavon World Heritage Centre
Southeast Wales
Housed in an artfully converted old school, this centre contains a cafe, a tourist office, a gallery, a gift shop and, more importantly, excellent…
Anglesey & the North Coast
Built in 1307 at the same time that the castle was going up, this pretty Gothic church once ministered to the castle's garrison. Built directly into the…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
Betws-y-Coed's main natural tourist draw is located 2 miles west of town, alongside the A5 on the River Llugwy. It's a beautiful spot, with the 42m…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
Built in 1860 to minister to workers injured in rockfalls and the other mishaps inseparable from slate mining, this museum provides a vivid insight into…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
This Cistercian abbey, founded in 1198, was never especially grand but the ruined walls and arches are still picturesque, especially when the daffodils…
Cardiff
Also known as the Turner House Gallery, this red-brick building near the train station hosts edgy photographic, video and multimedia exhibitions. It's at…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
A multitude of majestic birds of prey swoop in daily for their afternoon meal of manky meat scraps at this remote feeding centre. You're likely to see…
Anglesey & the North Coast
Conwy's High St heads through this gate in the medieval wall to the quayside. Its twin towers and portcullis allowed it to command access from the town to…
Anglesey & the North Coast
The twin-towered Mill Gate, one of two gatehouses in the southern stretch of Conwy's town wall, was built to allow access to the royal watermill, outside…
Smallest House in Great Britain
Anglesey & the North Coast
The Smallest House in Great Britain is a curiosity with dimensions of 72 in by 122 in and a mention in the Guinness Book of Records. On the quayside, its…
Anglesey & the North Coast
The entrance to the largest section of town wall starts from the station and heads up to the Upper Gate (where there are great views over the town to the…
Wales
Barry Island stopped being a real island in the 1880s when it was joined to the mainland by a causeway. Amusement arcades and fun parks line the…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
This pockmarked slab of marble salvaged from the Bronze Bell, a famous local shipwreck of 1709, has been sculpted by local Franck Cocksey to depict three…
Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)
This squat, early-19th-century stone prison has gender-segregated cells where drunk sailors and slatterns were once locked up for 'wanton mischief'.
Cardiff
Designed by Lord Richard Rogers (the architect behind London's Lloyd's building and Millennium Dome and Paris' Pompidou Centre), the home of the National…
Cardiff
One of the waterfront's few Victorian remnants, Pierhead is a red-brick and glazed-terracotta French Gothic confection, built in 1897 with Bute family…
Cardiff
Looking as though it's popped out of the pages of a story book, this white-slatted wooden building with a black witch's-hat spire was modelled on a…
Cardiff
A graceful Gothic tower rises from this 15th-century church, its delicate stonework looking almost like filigree. Along with the castle keep, this is one…
Wales
Penarth's rock-strewn shoreline may not be particularly attractive but it is the closest beach to Cardiff. In 1894 it was graced with that icon of the…
Cardiff
For over a decade Cardiff has been the filming location for famed TV series Doctor Who and its spin-off, Torchwood. In 2009 one of the main characters of…
Dan-yr-Ogof National Showcaves Centre for Wales
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
The limestone plateau of the southern Fforest Fawr is riddled with some of the largest and most complex cave systems in Britain. Most can only be visited…
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