About the area.

Imagine a very special land, a place of enchantment, an ancient kingdom. This land has majestic mountains and tranquil valleys, cascading rivers, magical forests and fairytale castles. Imagine too, that this fabled place has glorious sandy beaches, with safe bathing and quaint coastal resorts, and that it has a language, a culture and a heritage of its own, founded more than two millennia ago. Best of all, imagine that this land actually existed and was easily accessible. A land, a world apart, yet virtually on your doorstep!

Welcome to Gwynedd, the modern county, and once ancient realm.

Bordered by the Irish Sea, with its beautiful coastline and with the stunning Snowdonia National Park at its heartland, Gwynedd can truly claim to have some of the most amazing landscapes in the UK. Visitors return year after year, to escape from the hustle and bustle of modern life, to relax and enjoy the wonderful vistas around every corner.

The regions.

Lleyn Peninsula.

Shaped like an outstretched arm with a finger pointing out into the Irish Sea, the Lleyn Peninsula is the most westerly point of Gwynedd, an undulating spur reaching out from the mountains of Snowdonia. The Lleyn is a narrow peninsula, averaging eight miles in width and some twenty five miles in length and separates Caernarfon and Cardigan Bays. It is bordered to the east by the A487 Caernarfon-Porthmadog road.

North Snowdonia.

This mainly mountainous region of Gwynedd, from its border with Anglesey (Ynys Mon), south to the Traeth Bach estuary and east to Llan Ffestiniog is endowed with extraordinary beauty, both natural and man-made. The landscape of high mountains, deep glacial gouged lakes, waterfalls and forests was so accurately depicted by the romantic artists and poets of the 19th century that tourists were quickly drawn from afar, to admire the beauty for themselves.

South Snowdonia.

The Southern Snowdonia region of Gwynedd stretches from the Traeth Bach Estuary, eastwards to Y Bala and as far south as the Dyfi Estuary. Virtually all the area is within the Snowdonia National Park.

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