TOP HISTORY DESTINATIONS: Wales Boasting over 600 castles, Wales is a country in southwest Great Britain known for its gorgeous rocky land of magic, myth and dragons, mountainous national parks, distinctive Welsh language and Celtic culture. Cardiff, the capital, is a refined coastal city with a nightlife scene and a medieval castle with ornate Gothic Revival interiors. In the northwest, Snowdonia National Park has lakes, glacial landforms, hiking trails, and a railway up to the peak of Snowdon. Your group have plently of great opportunities to learn throughout Wales. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY OPPORTUNITIES: • Visit Museums taht have Recorded • Visit a Sculpture Commemorating Lives • Take a Park’s historic Railway to the Extensive Historical Lifestyle, Culture, Lost in Mining and Dedicated to All Summit of Wales’s Highest Mountain and Architecture of the Country Mining Communities • Discover the Industry and Innovation of • See the Last and Largest of the Castles to • Visit the Home of the Welsh Wales Over the Last 300 Years be Built by King Edward I Renaissance • Learn About Sea Adventures, Heroic • Find out How Life Evolved in Wales and • Explore a Castle’s Medieval Maze of Rescues, and Pirates of the Past Which Dinosaurs Roamed the Land Deep Vaults and Secret Staircases with • Explore the Life in an Distant Outpost of • Visit a 1,500 Cistercian Monestary on an Magnificent Views the Roman Empire Beautiful Island • Learn About the Parys Mountain and • Visit WW2 Air Raid Shelters and • Enjoy a Multi-Media Tour of a Modern Mining that Dates Back to the Bronze Collections of WW1 and WW2 Coal Mine with a Virtual Miner Age Memorabilia • Students Can Step Back in Time and • Explore the Tunnels of the World’s • Students Can Even See the Castle from Wear Replica Armour and Experience Largest Prehistoric Copper Mine the first scene of ‘Monty Python and the the Life of a Roman Soldier • Discover the Country’s International Holy Grail’ • Get a Glimpse Into the World of the Importance in 18th & 19th Century Iron Prisoner During the 1800’s Making and Coal Mining HISTORY ATTRACTIONS: • Powysland Museum • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct • The Blaenavon World Heritage Site • Beaumaris Castle • The Castles and Town Walls of King • The Six Bells Miners Memorial • Raglan Castle Edward • National Museum Cardiff • Beaumaris Gaol • Portmeirion • St. Fagans National Museum of History • Conwy Valley Railway Museum • Ceredigion Museum • National Waterfront Museum • Great Orme Mines • King Arthur’s Labyrinth • Big Pit National Coal Museum • Holyhead Maritime Museum • Carmarthenshire County Museum • National Slate Museum • Caernarfon Airworld Aviation Museum • Oystermouth Castle • National Roman Legion Museum • Caernarfon Castle • Kidwelly Castle • Wales Millennium Centre • Conwy Castle • Cyfarthfa Castle • Cadair Idris • Cardiff Castle • Cistercian Monastery • Barry War Museum • Pembroke Castle • The Copper Kingdom Centre • National Wool Museum • Strata Florida Abbey • Caerphilly Castle OT HER ATTRACTIONS: • Zip World Bounce Below • Sculptureheaven • Ziplines • Beacon Climbing Centre • Snowdonia National Park • Parachute Simulators • The National Botanic Garden of Wales • Devil’s Bridge and the Hafod Estate • Quad Biking Treks • Welsh Mountain Zoo • Bodnant Garden • SeaQuarium Rhyl • Techniquest • Spaceguard Centre • Rafting • Pembrokeshire National Park • Archery • Canoeing • Brecon Beacons National Park • Great Hiking • Ice Skating • Borth Wild Animal Kingdom • Team Building Courses • Windsurfing • Gypsy Wood Park • Waterworld • Borth Animalarium • Anglesey Sea Zoo • Cavern Trips • Centre for Alternative Technology • Cardiff Arcades • Indoor & Outdoor Karting • Putt-Putt • The Secret Owl Garden • Ropes Courses Helping history teachers open minds and educate students around the world. www.educationaldestinations.com 800.616.1112.