The 1995 film First Knight, starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere, was premiered in Porthmadog. It follows the story of Guinevere’s love for both King Arthur and Lancelot. Camelot was built at the edge of Trawsfynydd Lake, and scenes were filmed in the hills around Blaenau Ffestiniog, around the Mawddach estuary, at Black Rock Sands and in Llanfair slate caverns. Explore this mystical landscape on the Ffestiniog steam railway which runs from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog through Snowdonia National Park.
The 1995 film First Knight, starring Sean Connery and Richard Gere, was premiered in Porthmadog. It follows the story of Guinevere’s love for both King Arthur and Lancelot. Camelot was built at the edge of Trawsfynydd Lake, and scenes were filmed in the hills around Blaenau Ffestiniog, around the Mawddach estuary, at Black Rock Sands and in Llanfair slate caverns. Explore this mystical landscape on the Ffestiniog steam railway which runs from Porthmadog to Blaenau Ffestiniog through Snowdonia National Park.