Saturnalia Beer Festival
Each January, Wales's smallest town dresses in togas to race mountain bike chariots around Abernant Lake and toast the Roman winter god Saturn with Welsh real ales at the Neuadd Arms.
Britain's smallest town punches well above its weight: a working on-site brewery, a genuine calendar of eccentric community events, a cafe and a real pub make it a rewarding and oddly spirited destination for anyone willing to seek it out.
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"Three days of the finest Welsh dogs working sheep across a hill field near Brecon, with ice cream from Llanfaes Dairy and a real trial hush over the crowd."
Welsh National Sheepdog Trials
"The market town at the heart of the Elan Valley turns its cattle market into a gathering of vintage tractors, steam engines and working machinery each August, a show that could only happen in a part of Wales where the landscape itself feels preserved from an earlier century."
Rhayader District Vintage Show
"A leisurely ride through mid-Wales hills where every checkpoint hands you cider and perry, capped by a BBQ and free live music in town."
Summer Cider Cycle
✦ Weird and Wonderful"Teams of two mountain bikers tow a charioteer in a Roman-style chariot in a flat-out dash for the world title."
World Mountain Bike Chariot Racing Championship
✦ Weird and Wonderful"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
"Coracle racing on the Teifi and a quayside food market in this old Ceredigion port town."
Cardigan River and Food Festival
"Anglesey producers gather in the shadow of the medieval castle on the Menai Strait."
Beaumaris Food Festival
"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
"Flintshire's market town throws a 20th anniversary feast of cookery theatre, live music and the best of north Wales producers."
Mold Food and Drink Festival
"One of the longest established and friendliest food festivals in Wales, spread beside the Town Moor with chefs, stalls and local bands."
Narberth Food Festival
"Browse 120 Welsh artisan stalls and sip mulled cider amid the Italianate domes and pastel facades of Clough Williams-Ellis's fantasy village."
Portmeirion Christmas Fair