Must-see attractions in Snowdonia & the Llŷn

  • Swallow Falls

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    Betws-y-Coed's main natural tourist draw is located 2 miles west of town, alongside the A5 on the River Llugwy. It's a beautiful spot, with the 42m…

  • Quarry Hospital Museum

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    Built in 1860 to minister to workers injured in rockfalls and the other mishaps inseparable from slate mining, this museum provides a vivid insight into…

  • Porth y Swnt

    Llŷn Peninsula

    Run by the National Trust, this rather impressionistic centre takes visitors deeper into the land and culture of the Llŷn through poetry, sound, light and…

  • Cymer Abbey

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    This Cistercian abbey, founded in 1198, was never especially grand but the ruined walls and arches are still picturesque, especially when the daffodils…

  • Porth Oer

    Llŷn Peninsula

    This lovely, remote scoop of beach, 2.5 miles north of Aberdaron, has oddly shaped sand that squeaks when you walk on it, giving it its English name,…

  • Carreg y Llam

    Llŷn Peninsula

    The cliffs of Carreg y Llam, over 100 metres high, form an important nesting site, with huge colonies of razorbills, guillemots and kittiwakes. A 3-mile…

  • Last Haul

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    This pockmarked slab of marble salvaged from the Bronze Bell, a famous local shipwreck of 1709, has been sculpted by local Franck Cocksey to depict three…

  • Tŷ Crwn Roundhouse

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    This squat, early-19th-century stone prison has gender-segregated cells where drunk sailors and slatterns were once locked up for 'wanton mischief'.

  • Castell Dinas Brân

    Snowdonia & the Llŷn

    The ever-visible ragged arches and tumbledown walls of Dinas Brân (Crow Castle) mark the remnants of a short-lived 13th-century castle of which it was…

  • Denbigh Castle

    Snowdonia & the Llŷn

    During the Civil War Denbigh was a Royalist stronghold (Charles I once stayed here) and owes its ruined state to the Parliamentarians, who destroyed it in…

  • St Mary's Church

    Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol Eryri)

    Built in 1873, when the old Parish Church of St Michael could no longer cope with the devout Victorian tourists flocking to Betws.

  • St Hilary's Chapel

    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…