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Aberystwyth
Aberystwyth, a popular resort and university centre, is one of Wales's many fine Victorian towns.

Caerleon  
Visit Caerleon to absorb the architectural genius of the Romans. There is a well-preserved 2,000-year-old amphitheatre and one of the finest Roman barrack remains in Europe.

Harlech Castle
Mighty Harlech Castle, built in 1290, is one of the UK’s most familiar strongholds. Visitors gaze in awe, as it seems to grow out of the rock on which it stands.

Portmeirion
There's nowhere else quite like Portmeirion, the amazing fantasy village where southern Italy meets North Wales.

Llanthony Priory
Wales's mountains have many secret places, none more so than ruined Llanthony Priory, locked away in the remote Black Mountains.

National Botanic Garden
Based on the site of the old Middleton Estate, a Regency Parkland, the National Botanic Garden of Wales stretches over more than 500 acres of beautiful pollution-free countryside.

Welsh Princes Castles
With surviving remains of more than 470 earthwork and stone castles. Wales can truly claim to be ‘a land of castles’.

Beaumaris Castle
Beaumaris, begun in 1295, was the last and largest of the castles to be built by King Edward I in Wales.

Chepstow Castle
If there is a castle that comes close to matching Harlech in historical importance, that castle is surely Chepstow.

Conwy Castle
Conwy is by any standards one of the great fortresses of medieval Europe.

Raglan Castle
Raglan, stately and handsome, is perhaps deceptive.

Caerphil Castle
its immense size (1.2h), making it the largest in Britain after Windsor.