Location: Caernarfon
As a World Heritage Site, Caernarfon's castle and town walls ranks alongside the Taj Mahal and the Great Barrier Reef in the historical significance stakes. Back in the modern world the town has recently become a bit of a cultural Mecca with local and international artists, poets, musicians and filmmakers packing them in at the newly opened Galeri arts centre on the town's old Victoria Dock.
A less formal take on Caernarfon's colourful cultural life can be found at the 16th century Black Boy Inn located on a quiet lane known to locals as Four and Six Street. The unusual name comes from a town folklore which has it that in days gone by visiting sailors could buy a woman, a room and a bottle of gin at the Black Boy for this knockdown price.
Things have calmed down since then but the pub still plays host to raucous music and poetry nights.