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Blazoned quarterly Or and gules, four lions counterchanged langued and armed azure.
Coat of Arms for Wales
Credit: Sodacan

Royal Badge of Wales

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Cardiff City Hall
Cardiff City Hall
Credit: Oliwan

A view from the headland of Cardiff City Hall.

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A broad bay surrounded by 50-metre-high cliffs, with waves breaking at their bases.
Marloes Peninsula, Pembrokeshire
Credit: Donarreiskoffer

The Marloes peninsula on the Pembrokeshire coast, Wales

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Credit: Jamieo

Tor Bay and Three Cliffs Bay, Gower, Glamorgan

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Credit: Ezioman

Welsh national rugby union team versus the Italian national rugby union team at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff

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Credit: AFBorchert

Saint David as teacher of St. Finnian in a stained glass window at Clonard

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A horizontal bicolour of white over green charged with a red dragon passant.
Flag of Wales
Credit: Dbenbenn

The national flag of Wales is The Red Dragon (Welsh: Y Ddraig Goch), consisting of a red dragon passant on a green and white field. As with any heraldic charge, the exact representation of the dragon is not standardised and many interpretations exist.

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River Vyrnwy
River Vyrnwy
Credit: Ian Griffiths

A view down the River Vyrnwy (Afon Efyrnwy in Welsh) in northern Powys, Wales.

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Ceiling of the Arab Room, Cardiff Castle
Ceiling of the Arab Room, Cardiff Castle
Credit: Ezioman

A partial view of the ceiling of the "Arab Room" in Cardiff Castle, Cardiff

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Blue road sign with white writing: "Beicwyr ailymunch a'r lôn gerbydau" / "Cyclists rejoin carriageway".
Bilingual road sign on the A5 near Corwen
Credit: Stemonitis

The Welsh language is, with English, one of the two official languages of Wales, and most road signs in Wales are bilingual.

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Colourful buildings in contrasting architectural styles surround a palm tree-lined paddling pool.
The Central Plaza at Portmeirion
Credit: MichaelMaggs

Portmeirion is an Italianate village designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975. It has served as the location for numerous films and television shows, most famously serving as The Village in the 1960s television show The Prisoner.

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Charcoal drawing of a lone soldier from behind, titled "National Fund for Welsh Troops", also stating "Grand Matinee / St. David's Day March 1st / at the Alhambra Leicester Sq. W".
World War I poster for a fundraising event in support of Welsh troops. Lithograph designed by Frank Brangwyn in 1915
Credit: Frank Brangwyn

Sir Frank William Brangwyn RA RWS RBA (12 May 1867 – 11 June 1956) was an Anglo-Welsh artist, painter, watercolourist, virtuoso engraver and illustrator, and progressive designer.

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A sharp arête is seen obliquely; the sheer faces bear no vegetation and are made of noticeably reddish rock. Dozens of people can be seen clambering along the ridgeline.
Crib Goch from the west
Credit: Diliff

Crib Goch (Welsh for red ridge) is a "knife-edged" arête in Snowdonia National Park; all routes which tackle Crib Goch are considered mountaineering routes or scrambles. Crib Goch is the wettest place in the United Kingdom, with an average of 4,473 mm (176 in) rainfall a year over the past 30 years.

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Mumbles Lighthouse
Mumbles Lighthouse
Credit: Lilo Lil

Mumbles Lighthouse (built 1794) is a lighthouse located in Mumbles, near Swansea.

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In the foreground, a gentle slope, covered with snow, is bisected by a wire fence with wooden stiles. Further back, a rugged mountain juts upwards.
Tryfan, with Pen Llithrig y Wrach across the Ogwen/Llugwy valley
Credit: Stemonitis

Tryfan is one of the most recognisable peaks in Snowdonia, having a classic pointed shape with rugged crags. At 917.5 metres (3,010 ft) above sea level it is the fifteenth highest mountain in Wales.

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A long, one-storey rural building built of stone and divided into two halves; the right half, which is used as a chapel, is whitewashed.
Maesyronnen
Credit: Philip Pankhurst

Maesyronnen Chapel, situated about 1 mile north of the village of Glasbury, Powys, is one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in Wales. Built shortly after the Act of Toleration of 1689, which granted Nonconformists freedom to worship in their own buildings, it is the only chapel existing from that time to be largely unchanged and still in use as a chapel.

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A sprawling mansion in a Tudor revival style with ivy climbing the walls in places, with a lawn stretching out in front
Gregynog Hall
Credit: Broneiron

Gregynog Hall is a large country mansion in the village of Tregynon, 4 miles northwest of Newtown, Powys. The Blayney and Hanbury-Tracy families lived on the site from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries; in 1920 the current house was bought by Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, who turned it into an important cultural centre. During their ownership Gregynog hosted music festivals, gave its name to a printing press and, until the sisters' respective bequests to the National Museum of Wales, a housed significant collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. In 1960 the house was transferred to the University of Wales as a conference and study centre.

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The ruins of an abbey with the abbey church in the centre ground and a wooded hill behind
Tintern Abbey
Credit: Saffron Blaze

Tintern Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey, now in ruins, situated in the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye. Founded in 1131, it was only the second Cistercian foundation in Britain and the first in Wales. It inspired William Wordsworth's poem "Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey", Alfred, Lord Tennyson's "Tears, Idle Tears", Allen Ginsberg's "Wales Visitation" and more than one painting by J. M. W. Turner.

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