• Admire Cardiff Castle (website: www.cardiffcastle.com). Despite extensive rebuilding in the 19th century, parts date back to the Middle Ages. Also enjoy the National Museum Wales (website: www.museumwales.ac.uk), which has collections of Welsh archaeology, arts and crafts.

• Take a tour of the imposing Millennium Stadium (website: www.millenniumstadium.com), home of Welsh Rugby Union.

• Investigate the Cardiff Bay area, with a boat trip to the impressive Barrage (which seals the Bay off from the open sea), or a visit to the Techniquest Science Discovery Centre (website: www.techniquest.org), which is great for the kids.

• Experience historical Welsh culture at St Fagans with its open-air National History Museum (website: www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/stfagans).

• Sample a taste of south Wales' days as an industrial powerhouse in the former coal-producing valleys inland from Cardiff. Blaenafon (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) offers industrial heritage attractions in the shape of Big Pit Mining Museum and the Ironworks (website: www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/bigpit).

• Venture to the northern tip of Cardigan Bay to Harlech (website: www.harlech.com), famous for both its castle that overlooks the peaks of Snowdonia, and for the stirring song, Men of Harlech, referring to the 15th-century defence of the castle.

• Cross the Menai Strait to the island of Anglesey, notable for the remarkable Menai Bridge, and Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (commonly called Llanfair PG), which boasts the UK's longest place name.

• Learn about Wales' ancient Celtic heritage at Celtica in Machynlleth (website: www.celticawales.com). This interesting town also boasts the Centre for Alternative Technology (website: www.cat.org.uk), which highlights environmental issues and sustainable energy use, and Senedd-Dy Owain Glyndwr (the 15th-century Welsh parliament building).

• See the filming location of the cult 1960s TV series The Prisoner at the Italianate village of Portmeirion (website: www.portmeirion-village.com), near Porthmadog in north Wales.

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