The home of the Marquesses of Anglesey, on the shore of the Menai Strait with views to the mountains of Snowdonia (Eryri). Its dining room is filled by Rex Whistler's huge mural of an imaginary seascape, his greatest work.
A museum tells of the 1st Marquess, who lost his leg at Waterloo, and of his artificial leg. The gardens run down to the water.
A vast neo-Norman castle built in the early 1800s for the Pennant family, whose wealth came from Jamaican sugar plantations and Welsh slate quarries.
The highest mountain in Wales, 1,085 m, in Snowdonia (Eryri) National Park.
One of the great medieval castles built by Edward I to conquer Wales, completed in 1287, with eight huge towers and almost complete town walls that y…
One of the first road suspension bridges in the world, built by Thomas Telford in 1826 with turrets to match Conwy Castle beside it.
One of the great gardens of Britain, above the Conwy valley with views to the mountains of Snowdonia (Eryri).
A massive castle built in 1295 by Edward I to control the Welsh border, the last of his castles still lived in until 2004.
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