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Water Aberdaron
"A church on the sand where pilgrims ate their last meal before the island crossing."
City Abergavenny
"A market town under three mountains that fills with food producers one weekend each September."
Water Aberystwyth
"Starlings swirl under the pier at dusk, a cliff railway climbs, the national library watches."
Water Bala and Llyn Tegid
"Wales's largest lake, an ice-age fish found nowhere else, and a drowned village upstream."
Mountain Beddgelert
"A stone village at the meeting of two rivers, named for a legendary dog's grave."
Mountain Blaenau Ffestiniog
"The town that roofed the world, where you bounce on trampolines slung inside a slate cavern."
City Blaenavon and Big Pit
"Ride 300 feet down a real coal mine with a miner, in a UNESCO industrial landscape."
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Caldey Island
"Monks make chocolate and lavender perfume on an island a short boat from Tenby."
City Cardiff
"A capital whose castle holds a Roman wall, with arcades where a cheesemonger stocks 150 cheeses."
Mountain Carreg Cennen
"A castle on a limestone crag with a passage that leads down into its own cave."
Water Cenarth and the Teifi
"Salmon leap a waterfall by a medieval mill while fishermen still work from coracles."
City Conwy
"A complete ring of medieval walls above the castle where a king spent Christmas besieged."
Mountain Cwm Idwal
"The glacial bowl where Darwin found seashells in the rocks, beneath the Devil's Kitchen."
Mountain Devil's Bridge
"Three bridges built one on top of another over a gorge, reached by steam train."
Water Elan Valley
"Victorian dams stacked up a valley to water Birmingham, drowned houses and a dark sky above."
Water Great Orme and Llandudno
"Copper tunnels cut 3,500 years ago beneath a headland where Kashmir goats roam above a resort."
City Harlech
"A castle on a crag waiting for a sea that walked away centuries ago."
City Hay-on-Wye
"Two dozen bookshops turn a Welsh border town into a literary treasure hunt."
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Holywell
"A spring where pilgrims have bathed for thirteen centuries, under a vaulted chapel."
Wilderness Kenfig
"Sand that swallowed a medieval town and castle, now home to one of Britain's rarest plants."
Water Laugharne
"Dylan Thomas's writing shed above the estuary, in the town he called the strangest in Wales."
Water Llangollen and Pontcysyllte
"A canal boat crossing a valley in an iron trough thirty-eight metres above the river Dee."
Mountain Llanthony Priory
"Augustinian ruins in a dead-end valley, a bar in the priory, seven beds among the arches."
Water Llantwit Major and the Heritage Coast
"Jurassic fossils on the beach below a church where Britain's oldest school taught the saints."
City Llanwrtyd Wells
"The smallest town in Wales, home of bog snorkelling and the man-versus-horse marathon."
City Machynlleth
"The town where Glyndŵr was crowned, a Wednesday market, ospreys fishing the Dyfi."
Water Mwnt
"A whitewashed sailors' chapel on a green headland, dolphins in the cove below."
Water New Quay
"A harbour where bottlenose dolphins pass within sight of the pubs, in Dylan Thomas's bay."
Mountain Pen y Fan
"South Wales's highest summit, reached only on foot, a cairn to perch on at the top."
Mountain Pistyll Rhaeadr
"A 240-foot waterfall at the end of a dead-end valley with a serpent in its legend."
Water Porthgain and the Blue Lagoon
"Brick hoppers over a working harbour, and a flooded slate quarry the colour of green glass."
Water Portmeirion
"An Italianate village one architect built on a Welsh shore over fifty years."
Wilderness Preseli Hills
"The hills that sent bluestones to Stonehenge, a capstone balanced on three points for 5,000 years."
Water Rhossili and Worm's Head
"Three miles of sand under a green down, and a tidal causeway to a serpent-shaped headland."
Water South Stack
"Four hundred steps down to a lighthouse on its own rock, choughs and puffins overhead."
Water St Davids
"Britain's smallest city, a purple cathedral sunk beside a river, two visits worth one to Rome."
Water Stackpole and St Govan's
"A hermit's chapel wedged into a sea cliff, and lily ponds hidden behind the dunes."
Wilderness Strata Florida and Cors Caron
"An abbey doorway in the hills, a poet under a yew, a bog crossed by boardwalk."
Water Tenby
"Little fortress of the fish: two beaches, a tidal fort island, coffee inside the harbour wall."
Water Tintern
"A roofless Gothic abbey on the Wye that a teenage Turner sketched and Wordsworth revisited."
Wilderness Waterfall Country
"Walk behind a waterfall's curtain on a farmers' path, in a rainforest gorge in Wales."
Water Ynys Llanddwyn
"A tidal island of the Welsh saint of lovers, two lighthouses, red squirrels behind."
Mountain Yr Wyddfa and Llanberis
"The highest peak in Wales and England, climbed on foot or by mountain railway since 1896."
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A tide race separates this island's sacred stories from the mainland.
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The tide goes out. A forest four thousand years old comes back.
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Sleep above the shelves. Come down to a library before breakfast.
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A mountain lake keeps a legend of a bride and the art of healing.
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An abandoned quarry village found its voice again by teaching a language.
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Mining opened the mountain and left its colours exposed.
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By day, puffins. After dark, the shearwaters make themselves heard.
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