North Wales
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An Italianate fantasy village on a Welsh estuary, built over 50 years by one architect and made famous by a 1960s spy series — here’s exactly where to find it, and what to know before you go.
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A quiet Anglesey village with 58 letters in its name, a Victorian publicity stunt behind it, and a railway station sign that draws around 200,000 visitors a year purely to have their photo taken next to it.
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Where a king’s son was born, and two future kings were made Prince of Wales six centuries apart — Caernarfon is the grandest of Edward I’s Welsh fortresses.
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The castle where a king’s reign quietly ended, and Edward I’s walls still ring an entire town — Conwy remains one of Britain’s best-preserved medieval fortresses.
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The castle Owain Glyndŵr called home, and the site of Britain’s longest siege — Harlech still guards the Cambrian coast six centuries on.