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Criccieth
This genteel slow-moving seaside town (population 1800) sits above a sweep of sand-and-stone beach about 5 miles west of Porthmadog. Its main claim to fame is ruined Criccieth Castle perched up on the clifftop and offering views stretching along the southern coast and across Tremad
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Swansea Museum
It would be hard to find a more complete contrast to the Waterfront Museum than the gloriously old-fashioned Swansea Museum – Dylan Thomas referred to it as the museum which should have been in a museum. Founded in 1834, it remains charmingly low-tech, from the eccentric Cabinet of
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National Wool Museum
The Cambrian Mills factory, world famous for its high-quality woollen products, closed in 1984 and this interesting museum has taken its place. Former mill workers are often on hand to get the machines clickety-clacking, but theres also a working commercial mill next door where you
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Sgwd
Between the villages of Pontneddfechan and Ystradfellte is a series of dramatic waterfalls, where the Rivers Mellte, Hepste and Pyrddin pass through steep forested gorges. The finest is Sgwd-yr-Eira (Waterfall of the Snow), where you can actually walk behind the torrent. At one poi
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Rock Park
Rock Park, the site of the earliest spa development, is a serene forested, landscaped oasis at the centre of the town. The bath house is now a complementary health centre and the pump room a conference centre. Just southeast of the centre is a sedately pretty, tree-encircled lake,
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Gun Tower Museum
Some of Pembrokes history survives in the Gun Tower Museum, housed in a 19th-century Martello tower that was built to defend the harbour from possible attack by French invaders. There was rather an unfair distribution of space here – 33 men slept in hammocks in one room, while the
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Davies Gallery
One of Wales leading contemporary spaces hosting often edgy national and international exhibitions, Oriel Davies is the largest visual-arts venue in the region and offers a range of talks, courses and workshops. Its sunny, glassed-in cafe (open 10am to 4pm) is the best place for a
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Llandovery Castle
Across the car park from the heritage centre rises the shattered ruin of the motte-and-bailey Llandovery Castle, which wasbuilt in 1116. The castle changed hands many times between the Normans and the Welsh, and between one Welsh prince and another, taking a severe beating in the p
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National Waterfront Museum
The Maritime Quarters flagship attraction is the National Waterfront Museum, housed in a 1901 dockside warehouse with a striking glass and slate extension. The 15 hands-on galleries explore Wales industrial history and the impact of industrialisation on its people from 1750 to the
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Transporter Bridge
The spidery towers of the 1906 Transporter Bridge rise over the river, about a mile south of the city centre. A remarkable piece of Edwardian engineering, it can carry up to six cars across the river in a gondola suspended beneath the high-level track, while still allowing high-mas
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Norwegian Church Arts Centre
Looking like its popped out of the pages of a story book, this white-slatted wooden church with a black witchs-hat spire was modelled on a traditional Norwegian village church. It was built in 1868 to minister to Norwegian sailors and remained a place of worship until 1974. Roald D
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Llanystumdwy
The village of Llanystumdwy is the boyhood home and final resting place of David Lloyd George, one of Wales finest ever political statesmen, and the British prime minister from 1916 to 1922. Theres a small Lloyd George Museum , which gives an impression of the man and to some exten
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Tretower Court & Castle
Originally the home of the Vaughan family, Tretower gives you two historic buildings for the price of one – the sturdy circular tower of a Norman motte-and-bailey castle, and a 15th-century manor house with a fine medieval garden. Together they illustrate the transition from milita
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Carreg Cennen
Perched atop a steep limestone crag high above the River Cennen is Wales ultimate romantic ruined castle, visible for miles in every direction. The current structure was built at the end of the 13th century in the course of Edward Is conquest of Wales. It was partially dismantled i
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Penrhyn Castle
Funded by the vast profits from the slate mine of the Caribbean sugar plantation owner and anti-abolitionist First Baron Penrhyn, and extended and embellished by his great-great-nephew, this immense 19th neo-Norman folly is both tasteless and formidable. Flanked by a Victorian wall
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Kidwelly Castle
The small town of Kidwelly, at the mouth of the River Gwendraeth Fach, is dominated by the impressive pigeon-inhabited remains of Kidwelly Castle, a forbidding grey eminence that rises above a narrow waterway dotted with gliding swans. It was founded by the Normans in 1106, but mos
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Aberdaron
Aberdaron (population 1000)is an ends-of-the-earth kind of place with whitewashed, windswept houses contemplating Aberdaron Bay. It was traditionally the last resting spot before pilgrims made the treacherous crossing to Bardsey.Lingering from this time is St Hywyns Church , stoica
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St Michaels Church
The name Betws is thought to be derived from bead house, meaning a place of prayer (y coed – in the woods). Its likely that 14th-century St Michaels Church, the towns oldest building, stands on the site of that early sanctuary. In 1873 it was replaced as the parish church by the mu
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Llyn Tegid
Llyn Tegid was formed during the last Ice Age when glaciers blocked the valley of the River Dee with debris. The resulting rectangular lake is 4 miles long, three-quarters of a mile wide and, in places, over 42m deep. Local folk tales record an alternative to the glacial version o
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Dinas Oleu
Rising behind Barmouth, rocky Dinas Oleu (258m) made history in 1895 by becoming the first property ever bequeathed to the National Trust, kickstarting a movement dedicated to preserving Britains best landscapes and buildings. A network of trails covers the site, including the pop
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