There are roughly 427 castles in Wales, 100 of which are still standing. Here's a taster of some of them, taken by members of the BBC Wales Nature Flickr group. You can find out more about castles ...

Stay in a historic manor house when you book a room at Bodelwyddan Castle, located near the North Wales coast near Snowdonia. Guests at this regal hotel can enjoy modern amenities, a spa ...

which lords magisterially by the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia) on the north-west coast of Wales, a pocket of Britain rich in wonders and whimsy. Caernarfon Castle is one of the medieval wonders ...

Dr Tom Challands: Castle Inn is a redundant limestone quarry in Conwy North Wales. Although no longer providing limestone to the building industry, the past quarrying and the way the rock weathers ...

One building has a silouette of a lion etched into it while another appears to be a a fountain with a face carved in it. All the structures are made of concrete and are built upon a body of rocks.

A three and a half hour train journey in the UK, which costs as little as £6 per person, has been hailed as one of the 'most ...

Snowdonia – Eryri in the Welsh language – is the largest of Wales’s three national parks ... bike trails and white water rafting”, or visit a castle, a beach or a cosy pub.

in Snowdonia where slate quarrying overtook copper mining, and in parts of central Wales where factory methods were replacing domestic production in the woollen industry.