North Wales Sightseeing, Attractions & Activities Guide

with some of the most comfortable carriages on any preserved railway – standard or narrow gauge – step back in time to a more civilised age

often used in film and TV, with seven and a half miles through an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The views from the carriages are breathtaking

the state rooms include a 17th-century Long Gallery, grand 18th-century saloon with rich tapestries, with extensive gardens and children's play areas

a five-mile return journey alongside Lake Padarn, right in the heart of Snowdonia, stopping at Cei Llydan, a beautifully tranquil place that's ideal for a lakeside picnic

see Britain's marine life up close and personal, including a colourful reef , a kelp forest and an eerie shipwreck brimming with conger eels!

its spectacular situation, foreboding might, and great power were not sufficient to ensure the fame of this magnificent castle, Harlech is also inseparably linked with Welsh myth

these copper mines discovered in 1987, represent one of the most astounding archaeological discoveries of recent time

with magnificent architecture and stained glass windows. home of the first Welsh language bible translated by William Morgan