St Michael

The church sits right in Conwy's town centre, a solid medieval structure that's been there since the 14th century - proper real Wales, this. You'll walk straight into a space that feels genuinely lived-in rather than museum-polished. The interior's modest but honest: stone walls, a few decent monuments, and that particular smell of old prayer books and floor polish that you only get in parish churches that have actually been used continuously for six centuries.

It's worth a quick look if you're already wandering around Conwy - the castle's the main draw, but St Michael gives you a sense of what the town's ordinary people were up to while all the royal drama was happening elsewhere. The church is free to wander into during daylight, which is the proper way these places should work. You'll spend twenty minutes maximum inside, less if you're not interested in the detail of medieval stonework and Victorian additions.

Families won't find it thrilling - kids get fidgety in quiet churches - but if you're staying at any of the caravan parks nearby (Plas Farm's barely half a mile away), it's a natural stop when you're heading into town for fish and chips or a walk along the quay. The real appeal is the walk itself through Conwy's tight medieval streets rather than the destination. Abergele's only a few miles down the coast if you need a bigger seaside town, but Conwy's the better bet for atmosphere.