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The Brecon Beacons National Park has the lowest profile of Wales's three national parks, but it is nonetheless the destination of thousands of urban walkers, largely from the industrial areas of South Wales and the English West Midlands. Rounded, spongy hills of grass and rock tumble and climb around river valleys that lie between sandstone and limestone uplands, peppered with glass-like lakes and villages that seem to have been hewn from one rock. The National Park straddles Powys from west to east, covering 520 square miles. Most remote is the area at the far western side, where the vast, open terrain of Fforest Fawr forms miles of tufted moorland tumbling down to a rocky terrain of rivers, deep caves and spluttering waterfalls around the village of Ystradfellte and the chasms of the Dan-yr-ogof caves . The heart of the national park comprises the Brecon Beacons themselves, a pair of 2900-foot hills and their satellites which lend their name to the whole park. East of Brecon, the Black Mountains - not to be confused with the singular Black Mountain some distance to the west - stretch all the way to the English border, and offer the region's most varied

scenery, from rolling upland wilderness to the gentler Vale of Ewyas , with its ruined abbey and isolated churches.

The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal defines the northern limit of the Beacons and forges a passage along the Usk Valley between them and the Black Mountains. This is where you're likely to end up staying; in towns such as the sturdy county seat of Brecon , the overgrown village of Crickhowell , or Abergavenny , nestled below the Black Mountains.

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  The most heavily populated, and by far the most anglicized, part of Wales is the south . - Wales
  

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  With the advent of the A55 dual carriageway across the width of North Wales , the region has become considerably more accessible in recent times. - Wales
  

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