Some truths about Wales

Did you know

Royal corgis have traditionally always been Welsh - from Pembrokeshire.

Wales has 750 miles of beautiful coastline.

Wales has more high quality beaches - Blue Flag (33) and Green Coast Award (44) beaches than anywhere else in the UK (2004).

Captain Scott set sail from Cardiff Docks on his ill-fated expedition to the Antarctic on June 15,1910.

Inhabitants of the Gwaun Valley in West Wales still celebrate the arrival of the New Year in the middle of January, which is based on the old calendar in use before 1752.

The pilot Amy Johnson took off from Pendine sands in 1933 at the start of the first successful east west trans-Atlantic flight.

The Cult TV series, 'The Prisoner', starring Patrick McGoohan, was shot at the fantasy Italianate village of Portmeirion in Gwynedd.

The world's only leech farm - Biopharm - is in Swansea, guided tours can be arranged. Leeches from the farm are exported all over the world.

The tower at Caerphilly Castle out leans the Italian Tower of Pisa.

Charles Stewart Rolls, of Rolls Royce was born in Monmouth in Gwent.

The world's first steam engine, invented by Richard Trevithick, ran from Merthyr Tydfil to Abercynon in the South Wales valleys in 1804 - beating Stephenson's Rocket by 20 years.