Blaenau Ffestiniog

Blaenau Ffestiniog, UK

Perched in a deep bowl of Snowdonia’s western spine, Blaenau Ffestiniog feels like a town hewn from slate and wind.

Perched in a deep bowl of Snowdonia’s western spine, Blaenau Ffestiniog feels like a town hewn from slate and wind.Terraced houses and dark walls rise from a dramatic moonscape of terraces and cliffs where the industrial scars of the 19th-century slate boom have been recast as a rugged kind of beauty.