Wales
This pretty Edwardian-era park slopes from Penarth's bustling town centre down to the esplanade. Its formal gardens are filled with topiary and colourful…
Must-see attractions in Wales
Powys
All that remains of medieval St Edward's Church is its 14th-century bell tower; the rest of the building was rebuilt in early Decorated style, in the 19th…
Swansea, The Gower & Carmarthenshire
Housed in a former art college, this stylish little gallery stages changing exhibitions of contemporary art. The shop sells a nice range of craft and…
Snowdonia & the Llŷn
Only the tower and a little wall survive from this 14th-century chapel, built to serve the new town constructed by the English. Visitors aren't allowed…
Swansea, The Gower & Carmarthenshire
Set on a hillside above the beach, the stately grey ruin of Oxwich Castle is less a castle and more a sumptuous 16th-century, mock-military Tudor mansion.
Southeast Wales
Crowned with a squat tower, this 750-year-old red-sandstone church is accessed via a low wooden door with a foot-high step.
North Pembrokeshire
A working watermill dating from the 1640s, Y Felin is still used to make flour, which you can purchase at the mill door.
Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn)
Stop in the tiny Welsh town with the longest name for that obligatory photo by the sign at the train station.
Powys
This small vineyard by the Severn makes a sparkling pink, from pinot noir and pinot meunier.
Cardiff
The unusual shape of this large public space is due to its past life as the basin of the West Bute Dock. A large rectangular dock once extended from here…
Cardiff
This imposing but semiderelict building was once the nerve centre of the Welsh coal trade, and for a time the place where international coal prices were…
Swansea (Abertawe)
Only a small pocket of the central city around Wind St and Castle Sq escaped the WWII bombing raids and retains a remnant of Georgian and Victorian…
Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Behind the stolid neoclassical exterior of the former shire hall is the town's museum – although it's been shut for several years now. Various promised…
Swansea (Abertawe)
The name may conjure up images of Disney's hippos in tutus, but it's smaller critters that feature in this glass pyramid, parked between the depressingly…
Swansea (Abertawe)
The seemingly never-ending refurbishment of Swansea's main art gallery was still in progress when we last visited. By the time you read this, the elegant…
Southeast Wales
The site of the first test of Richard Trevithick's steam-powered locomotive may interest trainspotters, but there isn't a lot to see here apart from a…
South Pembrokeshire
The meagre ruins of Haverfordwest Castle consist of little more than three of its 13th-century walls. The castle survived an onslaught by Owain Glyndŵr in…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
There's not much left of Brecon's 11th-century Norman castle, except for a couple of sturdy walls facing the intersection of the Rivers Usk and Honddu…
Cardiff
As you're walking through Bute Park, look for the outline of the foundations of 13th-century Blackfriars Priory. It was destroyed in 1404, when Owain…
Cardiff
Roald Dahl Plass is overseen by a soaring stainless-steel water sculpture, which fans of the Doctor Who spin-off series will recognise as the location of…
Southeast Wales
The distinctive Ynysfach Engine House once contained the huge beam engines that created the blast of hot air for the iron furnaces of the Cyfarthfa…
Cardiff
This stone circle was erected in 1978 when Cardiff hosted the National Eisteddfod. Such so-called gorsedd stones are found all over Wales where…
Ceredigion
Commanding the junction of Great Darkgate and Pier Sts, Aberystwyth's clock tower is a replacement for the 1858 original, which had fallen into disrepair…
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
Across the road from the Castle of Brecon Hotel and only partially visible from the road is the original Norman motte, capped by the ivy-clad Ely Tower …
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
To call it a mini Big Ben is an exaggeration, but this dinky clock tower has been keeping Hay shoppers punctual since 1884.
Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog
This open-sided market hall has stood here since 1833, although the dairy produce has now given way to bric-a-brac.
