To visit Eryri is to encounter a landscape charged with history, language, and mythology. This is not simply a mountain park — it's the heartland of Welsh cultural identity, the territory of the last native princes of Wales, the landscape that the Welsh language has described without interruption for 1,500 years.
What's in This Section
Why Eryri Feels Unlike Anywhere Else
An essay on what makes Eryri distinctive — the language, the geology, the history of resistance, the sense of an older Britain.
What Is Eryri?
The name, the boundaries, the statistics. Why it was renamed from Snowdonia in 2022, and what that means.
The Welsh Language
The oldest living language in Britain, spoken daily by 60% of Eryri's residents. How to read place names; what they mean; why they matter.
The Princes of Gwynedd
Llywelyn the Great, Llywelyn Our Last Leader, and the Welsh castles that preceded Edward I's iron ring.
The Slate Landscape
The industry that shaped north Wales — the quarries, the great strike of 1900-1903, the UNESCO designation, and the terraces visible from space.
Myths and Legends
Dinas Emrys and Merlin's dragons, the true story of Gelert's grave, the Afanc of Llyn Tegid, Arthur beneath Yr Wyddfa.
Y Mabinogion — The Complete Story
A full synopsis of Wales's oldest tales — the Four Branches, the native tales, and the Three Romances — and how they connect to Harlech, Caernarfon and Dinas Emrys.