Abbey-Cwm-Hir Hall
Llandrindod Wells
A Victorian Gothic Revival hall beside the ruins traditionally holding Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's grave, in rural Powys
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Llandrindod Wells
A Victorian Gothic Revival hall beside the ruins traditionally holding Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's grave, in rural Powys
Neath
Four centuries of water power in a wooded gorge, still generating electricity today
Aberystwyth
Wales's largest arts centre, with three galleries and a major contemporary ceramics collection, on the University's Penglais campus
Aberystwyth
Edward I's coastal fortress — Owain Glyndŵr's court and capital of the Welsh revolt
Abertillery
The memory of the valley: coal, community, and culture in Blaenau Gwent
Aberystwyth
Discovering Ceredigion's heritage in a historic Edwardian theatre
Nefyn
Ships built on open beaches and captains from every family, in Nefyn's old parish church
Berriew
Wales's most dazzling museum — where Mirror Balls meet Alternative Miss World in mid-Wales
Rhosneigr
A Neolithic passage tomb on Anglesey's clifftops with rare decorated chamber stones in the Irish Sea megalithic tradition — access via key from the local post office
Greenfield
Cistercian hospitality on the Pilgrims' Way — a Welsh border abbey in a remarkable industrial heritage valley
Beaumaris
The oldest working courthouse in Wales — 400 years of justice on Anglesey
Beaumaris
Joseph Hansom's model Victorian prison — treadwheel, condemned cell, and the story of a public execution
Tredegar
An ironmaster's Regency house and its restored park at the head of the Sirhowy valley
Wrexham
Preserved colliery winding engine house and headgear on the former Wrexham coalfield
Torfaen
Descend 300 feet into Wales's coal mining heritage with former miners
Blaenavon
A UNESCO World Heritage Site — where the industrial revolution was forged in iron
Blaina
Volunteer-run local history museum preserving Blaina's coal, iron and community heritage
Llanfairpwll
Anglesey's finest Neolithic passage tomb, where the summer solstice sunrise illuminates the inner chamber — a monument unique in Wales for combining henge and passage tomb
Brynmawr
Brynmawr's volunteer-run museum, home to the celebrated 1930s Brynmawr Experiment furniture collection
Bronllys
A fine early 13th-century round tower keep on its motte, alone in the Black Mountains borderland
Buckley
Buckley's local pottery and industrial heritage, housed within the town library
Builth Wells
Gateway to mid Wales and guardian of the last Welsh prince's legacy
Rhosgadfan
The restored childhood home of Kate Roberts, one of Wales's greatest Welsh-language authors
Caergwrle
The last castle of independent Wales — Dafydd ap Gruffudd's hilltop stronghold above the Alyn valley
Caernarfon
RAF Llandwrog's Second World War airfield history, told at a still-working North Wales airport
Holyhead
Anglesey's principal arts centre, in a converted Victorian convent in Holyhead
Cardigan
Cardigan Castle is a historic Norman fortification magnificently restored and reopened as a heritage attraction in 2015, standing above the tidal River Teifi…
Pembroke
Norman fortress transformed into Elizabethan palace — Pembrokeshire's most spectacular castle complex
Carew
A restored Second World War RAF control tower, the flying operations centre of Coastal Command's anti-U-boat patrols
Carmarthen
Carmarthenshire County Museum is the principal museum for one of Wales's largest and most historically rich counties, housed in a building of extraordinary…
Llandeilo
A dramatic clifftop fortress with underground cave and breathtaking Carmarthenshire views
Tongwynlais
A Victorian fairy-tale castle with the most opulent Gothic interiors in Britain
Newport
Reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses on their original archaeological foundations
Tywyn
Remote native Welsh castle of Llywelyn the Great in the mountain heartland — one of the last strongholds to fall to Edward I
Crynant
A preserved anthracite colliery winding engine and pithead in the Dulais Valley, South Wales
Cardiff
Cardiff's artist-led multi-disciplinary arts centre in a converted 1907 school, running since 1971
Cilgerran
Above the gorge of the Teifi — one of Wales's most painted and dramatic castle ruins
Merthyr Tydfil
Gothic castle of iron kings - where industrial wealth meets artistic legacy
Dolgellau
A Cistercian abbey that bred horses for Welsh princes, set beneath Cadair Idris in the Mawddach valley
Coity
Eight centuries of Norman lordship in the Vale of Glamorgan — the seat of the Turberville and Gamage families
Conwy
Edward I's masterpiece - a complete medieval fortress with stunning coastal views
Conwy
The centuries-old story of Conwy's estuary mussel fishermen, told in a small quayside museum
Conwy
Telford's 1826 suspension bridge beside Conwy Castle — Gothic towers, iron chains, and the Holyhead Road
Conwy
Europe's finest medieval town walls — a complete 13th-century circuit walkable above Conwy's rooftops
Betws-y-Coed
Railway heritage and a working miniature railway beside Betws-y-Coed station
Amlwch
The story of Parys Mountain — briefly the largest copper mine in the world — told at the historic port of Amlwch
Penarth
A reconstructed fourteenth-century Welsh village, built on its own excavated archaeological foundations
Cowbridge
The story of a medieval walled town, told inside its own eighteenth-century gaol cells
Crickhowell
Norman Marcher castle at the gateway to the Brecon Beacons — Crickhowell's medieval heart
Denbigh
A hilltop fortress with the finest medieval gatehouse in Wales
Moelfre
A remarkably complete Romano-British settlement on Anglesey, where the foundations of a 4th-century farming and craft community survive within a still-impressive enclosure wall
Llanwrda
The only Roman gold mine in Britain — two millennia of gold extraction in the Welsh hills
Montgomery
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd's castle — the last stand of an independent Wales on a Severn Valley hilltop
Dolwyddelan
Llywelyn the Great's mountain stronghold — a native Welsh castle in the heart of Snowdonia
Llandeilo
A native Welsh hilltop castle of the Princes of Deheubarth above the Tywi — and the scene of a dramatic 1287 siege
Llanberis
Electric Mountain is one of Britain's most extraordinary and unusual visitor experiences — a guided journey deep inside Elidir Mountain above the village of…
Bridgend
Wales's finest Norman fortified priory — nine centuries of monastic history in the Vale of Glamorgan
Ewloe
Native Welsh D-tower castle hidden in Flintshire woodland — built by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd in 1257 to defend the Welsh borderland
Cardiff
The Story of the Welsh Soldier — From the Longbow to the Modern Battlefield
Flint
Edward I's first Welsh castle — the scene of Richard II's fall, with a unique detached donjon tower
Barry
A Norman castle in continuous private occupation for eight centuries, near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan
Newport
A dramatic 1790s staircase of locks raising boats 51 metres up the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal
Llangollen
The 1873 to 1935 narrow gauge tramway of the Ceiriog Valley, in its own restored engine shed
Swansea
Wales's regional art gallery - from Old Masters to cutting-edge contemporary
Holywell
70 acres of industrial heritage, nature, and history in North Wales
Grosmont
One of the Three Castles of Gwent — Hubert de Burgh's finest Welsh Marches fortress
Harlech
The fortress that inspired 'Men of Harlech' - dramatic clifftop castle with epic siege history
Llandudno
A restored Victorian stable block and terraced gardens above Llandudno, with outstanding Great Orme and bay views
Haverfordwest
Pembrokeshire's county town history told within a Norman castle on the Cleddau
Holyhead
Holyhead's seafaring story from Roman fort to Irish Sea gateway — ship models, navigational instruments, and maritime heritage
Llandudno
An immersive reconstruction of British civilian life during the Second World War, in Llandudno
Talgarth
The life and legacy of Howell Harris, founder of Welsh Methodism, at Coleg Trefeca
Tanygroes
An independent specialist collection of historic stationary and marine diesel engines near Cardigan, Ceredigion
Brecon
Art, History, and Roman Heritage in the Heart of the Beacons
Merthyr Tydfil
Birthplace cottage of composer Joseph Parry, creator of 'Myfanwy' and the hymn tune 'Aberystwyth'
Presteigne
Victorian justice in a Georgian townhouse — Presteigne's extraordinary intact judge's lodgings
Kidwelly
A masterpiece of concentric castle design and famous Monty Python filming location
Knighton
A handling collection and dementia-friendly museum in a Welsh border town
Lampeter
The story of a small Ceredigion market town that became home to one of Britain's oldest degree-awarding colleges
Lamphey
A medieval episcopal country retreat with Wales's most distinctive decorative parapet — Bishop de Gower's masterpiece
Harlech
The birthplace of Ellis Wynne, author of the landmark Welsh-language work Visions of the Sleeping Bard
Laugharne
Medieval stronghold and Tudor garden above the Taf estuary, in Dylan Thomas country
Nelson
A Tudor manor house frozen in 1645, brought to life through sustained first-person Civil War interpretation
Llandudno
The story of Llandudno, from Creuddyn peninsula farming community to Victorian planned resort
Llanelli
Llanelli's heritage jewel — fine pottery, local history, and a beautiful Edwardian mansion
Aberaeron
Wales's best-preserved Georgian estate — John Nash villa, working farm, and walled gardens in the Aeron Valley
Llangollen
An independent enthusiast-built collection of over sixty vintage and classic vehicles near Llangollen
Llangollen
Llangollen Museum occupies the town's former court house and magistrates' court on Parade Street, providing an intimate and engaging introduction to the…
Llanidloes
Medieval market hall, Chartist rising, and the heritage of the upper Severn valley
Llanon
A rare surviving straw-rope-underthatch cottage in the Ceredigion coastal village of Llanon
Llansteffan
Norman fortress on a headland above the Tywi estuary — commanding views across Carmarthenshire and beyond
Cwmbran
South-east Wales's dedicated applied arts and craft gallery, in a nineteenth-century grange house, Cwmbran
Llanthony
A romantic Augustinian ruin in the remote Vale of Ewyas, deep in the Black Mountains
Llawhaden
A bishops' castle in a wooded Pembrokeshire valley — medieval episcopal power in the heart of the St Davids diocese
Llanystumdwy
The boyhood home and life story of Britain's Welsh Prime Minister, David Lloyd George
Loughor
Roman fort Leucarum, Norman tower — two thousand years of strategic command above the Loughor estuary
Manorbier
Birthplace of Gerald of Wales and 'the pleasantest spot in Wales' above Manorbier Bay
Port Talbot
One of the finest collections of early medieval inscribed stones and Celtic crosses in Wales
Menai Bridge
Telling the story of Thomas Telford's Menai Suspension Bridge and the Menai Strait crossing, Anglesey
Caersws
A sculpture park and gallery centred on the Stefan Knapp enamel collection, at Maesmawr near Caersws
Milford Haven
From Quaker whalers to trawlers to oil tankers — three maritime industries on one of Britain's finest natural harbours
Wrexham
Surviving engine house and surface workings of a major North East Wales lead mining site
Llanidloes
The Quilt Association's exhibition space for Welsh quilting and textile heritage, Llanidloes
Swansea
Wales's leading contemporary craft gallery, in a former seamen's mission chapel, Swansea
Moelfre
Moelfre's maritime history — shipwrecks, RNLI heroism, and coastal wildlife on Anglesey's east coast
Mold
Mold's local history museum, centred on novelist Daniel Owen's life and legacy
Machynlleth
A redundant chapel turned gallery and concert hall, holding four centuries of Welsh art in a mid-Wales market town
Monmouth
The story of the Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, in a stable wing of Great Castle House
Montgomery
13th-century English Marcher castle on a dramatic rocky crag — scene of the Treaty of Montgomery 1267, slighted by Parliament in 1649
Llandudno
Wales's leading contemporary art gallery, in an Edwardian building with a major modern extension, Llandudno
Pendine
Commemorating the 1920s world land speed record attempts on Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire
Wrexham
A restored water-powered corn mill and ancient woodland nature reserve on the edge of Wrexham
Ruthin
The oldest timber-framed townhouse in Wales, interpreted room by room across six centuries
Nantgarw
The site of Britain's most technically exceptional porcelain works, producing translucent Nantgarw china
Narberth
The Arberth of the Mabinogi — a town-centre castle ruin at the heart of Welsh myth
Narberth
The everyday history of a Pembrokeshire market town rooted in the legends of the Mabinogion
Tywyn
The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum occupies the handsome stone buildings of Tywyn Wharf Station, the southern terminus of the Talyllyn Railway — and tells a story…
Marcross
A working Bristol Channel lighthouse on the dramatic Glamorgan Heritage Coast, built after an 1831 shipwreck
Llandrindod Wells
Over 260 bicycles spanning two centuries, housed in a 1906 motor showroom in Powys
Cenarth
The world's most comprehensive collection of coracles, beside the River Teifi at Cenarth Falls
Swansea
Wales's industrial and maritime heritage - innovation that changed the world
Neath
Wales's wealthiest medieval monastery — Cistercian ruins transformed by Elizabethan mansion and early industry
Newcastle Emlyn
Native Welsh castle above the Teifi — gateway to the first printing press in Wales
Newport
A fifteenth-century merchant ship, rescued from the River Usk mud — view the ongoing conservation, Fridays and Saturdays in season
Newport
One of the world's few working transporter bridges — a 1906 aerial gondola crossing of the River Usk
Newtown
Robert Owen's birthplace, Welsh flannel, and the world's first mail-order business
Cardiff
Where Norwegian heritage meets contemporary arts by Cardiff Bay
Knighton
Interpreting the largest ancient monument in Britain, at the halfway point of the trail
Ogmore-by-Sea
Cross the famous stepping stones to one of Glamorgan's most charming Norman castles — beside Europe's second-largest dunes
Montgomery
History of the Welsh Marches in a preserved coaching inn — castle, canal, Offa's Dyke and Civil War
Newtown
Mid Wales's principal contemporary art gallery, set in Newtown's riverside Park since 1994
St Davids
Pembrokeshire's landscape art gallery and National Park visitor centre, on the edge of St Davids
Llangefni
Anglesey's premier gallery and heritage centre — celebrating the island's art, history, and natural world in the heart of Llangefni
Carmarthen
South-west Wales's principal contemporary art and craft gallery, in a converted Victorian school, Carmarthen
Machynlleth
The traditional site of Owain Glyndŵr's 1404 Welsh parliament, at the height of the last great medieval Welsh uprising
Oxwich
Wales's finest Tudor fortified manor house — the Mansel family's Renaissance courtyard mansion on Gower
Llanelli
Parc Howard Museum is Llanelli's principal public museum and art gallery, housed in an elegant Edwardian mansion set within the beautiful public parkland of…
Pembroke
Pembroke Castle is one of the finest and most complete medieval castles in Wales — a magnificent Norman stronghold rising above the tidal waters of the…
Pembroke dock
Pembroke Dock Heritage Centre occupies part of the Victorian Defensible Barracks, one of the most complete and historically significant military barracks…
Penarth
A restored 1929 Art Deco pier pavilion, now a thriving community cinema and arts venue on the Penarth seafront
Penmaenmawr
Stone, sea, and community — the extraordinary history of Penmaenmawr and its granite mountain
Beaumaris
Sixth-century Celtic Christian site with Norman priory church — Anglesey's most atmospheric early monastery
Bangor
A neo-Norman castle built on slavery and slate — honesty and grandeur on the National Trust's most challenging property
Newport
Wales's finest Neolithic dolmen — a 16-tonne capstone balanced on three slender uprights in the Preseli Hills, with views across Pembrokeshire to the sea
Haverfordwest
A medieval Welsh castle continuously inhabited by one family for over 600 years, set in outstanding woodland gardens
Cardiff
Cardiff Bay's flamboyant 1897 dock-company headquarters, now telling the story of Welsh democracy
Conwy
Wales's finest Elizabethan town house — Robert Wynn's Renaissance masterpiece with spectacular original plasterwork
Llanfairpwll
An 18th-century mansion with Rex Whistler's masterpiece on the shores of the Menai Strait
Porthmadog
The port that roofed Victorian Britain — Welsh slate and the Western Ocean Yachts
Welshpool
A medieval castle rising above world-famous terraced gardens, housing a magnificent collection including treasures from the age of the British Empire in India
Welshpool
One of Wales's oldest museums, preserving the rich archaeology and heritage of the ancient kingdom of Powys beside the historic Montgomery Canal
Llandrindod Wells
The heritage of Wales's most thinly-populated county — from Roman forts and hillforts to Victorian spa elegance
Raglan
The most magnificent late-medieval castle in Wales — an architectural masterpiece of the 15th century
Rhyl
One of Britain's oldest miniature railways, running the Marine Lake seafront since 1911
Rhyl
The story of North Wales's favourite seaside resort — from Victorian pier to the Sun Centre wave pool
Rhondda
Experience authentic Welsh coal mining heritage where generations worked underground
Newtown
Newtown's museum dedicated to Robert Owen, pioneering social reformer and founder of the co-operative movement
Conwy
Wales's foremost art academy since 1881, in a purpose-built gallery within Conwy's medieval walled town
Caernarfon
Three Centuries of Welsh Military Valour in a Medieval Fortress
Aberystwyth
15,000 Objects of Fine and Decorative Art at Aberystwyth University
Haverfordwest
Victorian country house, Pembrokeshire history, and a country park in the heart of Wales's most westerly county
Beddgelert
Genuine underground copper mine workings beneath the mountains of Snowdonia
Skenfrith
Compact 13th century fortress with distinctive round keep beside the River Monnow
Holyhead
A working 1809 lighthouse reached by 400 steps and a suspension bridge, amid Anglesey's seabird cliffs
St Athan
Climb aboard Cold War jets in a working hangar on a historic RAF maintenance airfield
Port talbot
The voices of the valleys — coal, community and the South Wales mining legacy
St-davids
A lavishly decorated medieval bishop's palace beside St Davids Cathedral in Britain's smallest city
Holywell
Britain's oldest continuously visited pilgrimage site — 'the Lourdes of Wales' — with its exceptional medieval well chapel
Pentraeth
650 million years of Earth's history at a family-run fossil and mineral museum on Anglesey
Bangor
Storiel — the Welsh word for gallery — is the principal public museum and art gallery for the county of Gwynedd, housed in a handsome Victorian building in the…
Ystrad meurig
The Westminster Abbey of Wales — Cistercian heartland and burial place of Welsh princes in the Vale of Flowers
Swansea
Medieval castle fragment with an exceptional arcaded parapet in the heart of Swansea
Church Bay
The last surviving traditional thatched longhouse on Anglesey, near Church Bay
Newborough
Wales's largest transport collection, built from the vehicles Anglesey actually drove
Swansea
Swansea University's arts centre for film, performance and visual art exhibitions, Singleton campus
Tywyn
The world's first preserved railway — rescued by volunteers in 1951, founding the entire heritage railway movement
Llandeilo
The only Premonstratensian abbey ever founded in Wales, its lone tower rising above twin lakes
Tenby
The oldest independent museum in Wales — heritage, art and history on Castle Hill
Brecon
The Story of Rorke's Drift and Three Centuries of Welsh Soldiering
Newport
Newport's professional theatre and arts centre, on the banks of the River Usk
Llantrisant
A thousand years of British coin-making history, with guided access to the working Royal Mint at Llantrisant
Llanrwst
A genuine, largely unchanged early-to-mid twentieth-century Welsh village shop in Llanrwst
Rhayader
Rhayader's community-run local history museum, gateway to the Elan Valley story
Tintern
Wales's most spectacular ruined abbey — a sublime Cistercian masterpiece in the Wye Valley
Betws-y-Coed
Birthplace of Bishop William Morgan, whose 1588 Welsh Bible saved the Welsh language
Trawsfynydd
A Roman fort reused as a Norman castle on wild Eryri moorland, with Britain's rarest amphitheatre earthworks
Tredegar
The story of Tredegar's ironworks, its labour history, and its role as the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan and the NHS's origins
Tregaron
The story of the red kite's rescue from near-extinction, told at the heart of its last British stronghold
Crickhowell
Medieval Wales at its most evocative — a Norman castle tower and a rare fortified manor house
Tenby
A 15th-century merchant's house in Tenby — one of Wales's finest survivals of Tudor domestic architecture
Pontypridd
Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of South Wales
Aberystwyth
Steam through the Rheidol gorge, and a world-class narrow-gauge collection in the engine shed
Llangollen
Cistercian abbey in a spectacular Dee Valley setting — Wales's most beautiful medieval west front
Cardiff
Cardiff Bay's landmark performing arts centre, home to free exhibitions and the Bocs immersive art space
Porthmadog
The Welsh Highland Heritage Railway at Porthmadog is a dedicated preservation railway and museum operating from the site of Gelert's Farm Works, safeguarding…
Lampeter
Jen Jones's collection of historic Welsh quilts, in Lampeter's Town Hall
Llanfair Caereinion
Sheep, steam and severe gradients on Montgomeryshire's international narrow-gauge line
Swansea
A medieval fortified manor on the Gower Peninsula — domestic grandeur with views across the Loughor estuary
Llangeler
Over a century of toys, dolls, and childhood memorabilia in a converted Carmarthenshire farm setting
Llantilio-crossenny
Magnificent moated medieval fortress of the Three Castles, set in peaceful Monmouthshire countryside
Denbigh
The history of radio broadcasting and wireless technology in Wales, at Canolfan Iaith Clwyd, Denbigh
Wrexham
Discover the rich story of Wrexham and north-east Wales, from medieval ironworking to football glory
Wrexham
North Wales's hands-on science discovery centre for children and families, run by charity North Wales Science