2. www.maps-of-britain.co.uk/images/map-wales.gif

3. Wales(known as Cymru in the national language) is
part of the United Kingdom.
The capital of Wales is Cardiff.
The money used is called the pound sterling.
The languages spoken are Welsh and English.

4.  Snowdonia National Park
www.galenfrysinger.com

5. Welsh people have special celebrations around the Christmas
season. They get up between 3 and 6 AM to go to church
services. Many families spend the entire night of Christmas eve
decorating the house and singing and dancing until it is time to go
to the church. They go out drinking and singing and carrying the
wassail bowl to friends and neighbours. The wassail bowl contains
cakes, baked apples and sugar with warm beer and spices poured
over it.
Welsh people have a tradition of giving hand
carved wooden love spoons to a sweetheart.
Wales has always been known as a country of
music and song.
Eisteddfod – since the 12th century.
An annual competition which was held to find the
best poets, writers and musicians.

6.  The Red Dragon of Wales was introduced to
Britain by the Romans about eighteen
hundred years ago. The origins of the Red
Dragon flag, or "y Draig Goch" could date
back to the Roman period
 All over Wales you will find wishing wells into
which people still throw money.
 The daffodil is a Welsh national emblem,
and the leek, too.
 St. David is the patron saint of Wales.

7. It belongs to a branch of Celtic, an Indo-European
language.
Their language is a distant cousin to Irish and Scots
Gaelic and a close brother to Breton.
Welsh (Cymraeg) is still used by about half a million
people within Wales and possibly another few hundred
thousand in England and other areas overseas. Many of
the road signs are written both in English and Welsh.

8. The eldest son of Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
He was born at Buckingham Palace
on 14 November 1948.
He has two sons: Harry and
William.
This tradition to name the
future monarch of Britain
«Prince of Wales» began in
1301 with king Edward I of
England who completed the
conquest of Wales and gave this
title to his son.

9. Wales is home to some
of Europe's finest
surviving examples of
medieval castle
constructions.
Mold castle
Chepstow
Ewloe
Beaumaris

10. National Museum and
Gallery
Roman Legionary
Museum
Museum of Welsh
Life
Museum of the Welsh
Woollen Industry