Agricola founded Segontium after he conquered the Ordovices about AD77, and it was the main Roman base in north Wales until the garrison finally left...

This popular children`s indoor adventure play centre is housed inside a beautiful, big church that had closed. Parents can accompany children and there is a...

Now a World Heritage Site, Caernarfon Castle is one of the castles founded by Edward 1 to subdue the Welsh. Sited at the mouth of...

Caernarfon is one of the oldest and most historical communities in the north of Wales, and has through the centuries been the site of a...

St Mary's was erected within the town walls to serve as a church for the garrison of Caernarfon Castle. It was built in 1307 by...

Deep inside Elidir Mountain are miles of tunnels and a huge cavern housing one of man`s greatest engineering achievements. Falling water from a lake on...

Slate mining has been an integral part of Welsh communities for generations. At the Llanberis Welsh Slate Museum, nestled in the valley below Mount...

The Llanberis Lake Railway is a delightful, little railway line that runs beside Padarn Lake, offering great views of Snowdonia`s mountains. Originally built in the...

The highest mountain in England and Wales can be climbed by taking the only rack and pinion railway in the British Isles to within a...

The former quarry hospital stands on a wooded hillside in Padarn Country Park. It was built in the mid 19th Century for the workers of...

Guarding the entrance to a pass through Snowdonia`s mountains, Dolbadarn Castle stands high on a rocky hill between two lakes. Built in the early 13th...

West of Menai Bridge is Robert Stephenson`s railway bridge built in the mid 19th Century when railways arrived in north Wales. The Britannia Bridge was...

Home of the Marquess of Anglesey, Plas Nweydd is situated on the bank of the Menai Strait with magnificent views of Snowdonia. This elegant...

Now a ruin, this once substantial sixteenth Century chapel was built on the site of an earlier shrine to Dwynwen, patron saint of lovers. In...

In the nineteenth Century Llanddwyn Island became an important point of navigation for ships carrying slate out of Bangor and through the Menai Strait. These...

In the fourteenth Century violent storms buried much of the coastline under sand dunes. The area now forms part of the National Nature Reserve and...

St Mary’s Church is located in the village with the longest place name in Britain -Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Translated to English the name means - "The church...

The archaeological site of Llys Rhosyr is easily missed by motorists on their way to Llandwyn Island. It is located at a bend in the...

The Chester and Holyhead Railway developed the original site here in the mid 1840s. The gardens were laid out by Sir Joseph Paxton, the...

The famous Menai Straits Bridge is an attraction in its own right. Thomas Telford’s chain bridge over the Menai Straits was completed in 1825 and...