The trip, in order
Follow the route day by day. Times and prices can change, so check official information before you travel.
Capital heritage
Cardiff
- 1
Cardiff Castle
Cardiff Castle is worth allowing time for because it combines fortified architecture and the way successive periods remain visible in walls, towers and domestic ranges. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are principal towers and defensive walls, historic residential or service ranges and historic urban setting. Its position in or near Cardiff also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 150 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Pembrokeshire heritage and coast
St Davids / Stackpole
- 1
St Davids Cathedral
St Davids Cathedral is worth allowing time for because it combines architecture, worship spaces, monuments and the changing use of a long-lived religious site. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are nave, choir and principal architectural details and memorials, chapels and historic fittings. Its position in or near St Davids also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
- 2
Barafundle Bay
Barafundle Bay is worth allowing time for because it combines a distinctive landscape that can be understood through geology, land use and carefully chosen walking viewpoints. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Stackpole also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Pen y Fan
Brecon
- 1
Pen y Fan
Pen y Fan is worth allowing time for because it combines a distinctive landscape that can be understood through geology, land use and carefully chosen walking viewpoints. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Brecon also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 180 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.
Wye Valley abbey
Tintern
- 1
Tintern Abbey
Tintern Abbey is worth allowing time for because it combines monastic architecture, ruins and the historical setting of a religious community. The site is more useful than a quick photograph: its surviving features give clear evidence of how the place developed and how people used it. Key things to concentrate on are main landscape viewpoints and geological, coastal, moorland or mountain features. Its position in or near Tintern also makes it a practical anchor for exploring the surrounding region without reducing the visit to a simple landmark stop.
- Duration
- 90 minutes suggested
- Price
- Check current official information
- Start time
- Choose a start time that suits your day.