Chepstow Wassail and Mari Lwyd
Hosted by Widders Border Morris on the ancient border between England and Wales, this January gathering weaves together West Country apple wassailing, the Welsh Mari Lwyd hobby-horse tradition, Morris dancing, mumming, and a ceilidh into a single boisterous riverside procession through Chepstow town centre.
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"A one day celebration of Wye Valley rural life with ferret racing, falconry and a bustling Home and Garden marquee across 96 acres."
Monmouthshire Show
"Running every year since 1844, this is one of the biggest one day shows in Britain with steam corner, a companion dog show and freestyle motocross."
Usk Show
"The food festival that started the whole British movement, filling a Monmouthshire market town under the Sugar Loaf with Welsh lamb, farmhouse cheese and orchard cider every September."
Abergavenny Food Festival
"Ploughmen from across Monmouthshire turn up to a rotating farm venue each October for their county match, a competition held in the border country between Wales and England where the hedged fields and red Hereford cattle still look much as they always have."
Monmouthshire Ploughing Match
"The magnificent Victorian Market Hall of this Welsh market town at the foot of the Brecon Beacons hosts its Christmas markets on late Sundays in November and December, offering local crafts and food in one of the grandest working market buildings in Wales."
Abergavenny Christmas Market
"Around 15 to 20 private gardens open in a small Welsh market town draped in floral displays, with a plant market and picnic spots beside the River Usk."
Usk Open Gardens
"Wales' largest cultural festival pitches its pink pavilion in a different corner of the country each year for a week of Welsh-language song, poetry and ceremony."
National Eisteddfod of Wales
"Marking 850 years since the first eisteddfod held at nearby Cardigan Castle in 1176, this touring Welsh-language cultural festival returns to North Pembrokeshire with 6,000 competitors across music, dance, literature, and visual arts on a maes open to all."
National Eisteddfod of Wales (Eisteddfod y Garreg Las)
"A 25,000-capacity festival on a Brecon Beacons estate where ten areas wrap live music around literature, science, comedy and a giant burning Green Man."
Green Man
"The Victorian spa town of Llandrindod Wells dresses entirely in period costume for a week each August, with residents, traders and visitors all adopting Victorian dress for street entertainment, performances, markets and a grand parade through a town whose architecture still looks exactly as it did when the railway brought Victorian society to drink the waters."
Llandrindod Wells Victorian Festival
"An award-winning micro-festival of indie-folk, science and nature set in coastal Candleston Woods, with intimate stages tucked between the trees by the sea."
Between the Trees
"The Llys Y Fran Young Farmers Club hosts a fireworks display beside the reservoir in a rural Pembrokeshire valley completely free of light pollution, making for an unusually vivid and atmospheric bonfire night sky."
Llys Y Fran Fireworks Display