Places to visit
Places to visit

Below are a few of the many places to visit in the area when you
visit, for any further specific details please contact us.

Sygun Copper Mine
Prince of Wales award winning audiovisual underground tours of copper mine set in the heart of Snowdonia near Beddgelert. Winding tunnels and colourful caverns, stalagtites and stalacmites. During the tour to three levels of the mine commentaries and displays help to recreate the life and conditions of the miners, and how the copper was mined together with the geology of the area.

Welsh Slate Museum Llanberis
Shadowed by towering slate mountains, the Welsh Slate Museum is housed in the Victorian Workshops which once served the whole of the Dinorwig slate Quarry. A living, working piece of history, the Museum tells the story of the slate industry in Wales, from nurturing traditional crafts and skills to the harsh realities of quarrying life for over 15,000 men and boys of Gwynedd.

Winner of the Wales Tourist Board Awards: A Sense of Place

Foel Farm Park
Foel Farm Park offers a great family visit to experience the sights, sounds and smells of a real working farm. We invite all visitors to meet, touch and feed the animals.
There are pony rides for smaller children, the whole family can take a tractor and trailer tour of the farm to meet our shire horses and for the more adventurous we offer quad and trailer rides.

Criccieth Castle
Criccieth Castle, on its commanding headland overlooking Tremadog Bay, is one of those rare castles with a foot firmly in both camps. Criccieth?s history is deeply entwined in the medieval conflict between Wales and England. Originally a stronghold of the native Welsh princes, it was later annexed and extended by the English monarch, Edward I.

Harlech Castle
Like an all-seeing sentinel, spectacularly sited Harlech Castle gazes out across land and sea, keeping a watchful eye over Snowdonia. The English monarch Edward I built Harlech in the late 13th century.


Inigo Jones Slate Works
Inigo Jones Slate Works was founded in 1861 primarily to produce school writing slates. Today the company prefabricates architectural memorial and craft products from the same raw material namely natural

Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum
A massive 19th century fantasy castle built on the profits of Jamaican sugar and Welsh slate. It is crammed with fascinating things including a one-ton slate bed made for Queen Victoria and a Grand Staircase.

Segontium Roman Museum
Depicts the story of the conquest and occupation of Wales bythe Romans with archeological exhibitions.


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