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As the place with more castles than any part of the United Kingdom, Wales is commonly absent from the pictures drawn by storytellers of American history. In general, there were ...
The £4.5m funding from Welsh Government and the council will go towards preserving Cyfarthfa Castle in Merthyr Tydfil ...
This summer, travel to one or more of these architectural destinations for a regal day trip and live out your fairy tale ...
Welsh rocker Mike Peters was the frontman of the band The Alarm - and, despite being diagnosed with blood cancer 30 years ago, he still enjoyed a successful career, touring the world.
The Cabinet Secretary for Transport and North Wales, Ken Skates,has unveiled an ambitious long-term vision for public transport in North Wales at Wales’ first ever Public Transport Summit later today ...
The King had formal lessons in the Welsh language at Aberystwyth University from April to June 1969 - before he became Prince of Wales in July that year at Caernarfon Castle.
As far back as 1070, the Norman lord built a timber motte-and-bailey castle at Hen Domen (which translates to 'old mound' in Welsh), northwest of the present town, and a small village grew around it.
The castle's entryway boasted complex defences, featuring not just ditches but also two gate towers, each equipped with its own drawbridge and believed to have had a portcullis. Cadw has remarked: ...
Though now a ruin, Castell y Bere was once the most heavily defended and technologically advanced of all the native Welsh castles. It was destroyed in battle, but its construction served more than ...
“But it’s a magnet for all castle lovers.” It’s long been a ruin. But this was once the most heavily defended and technologically advanced of all the native Welsh castles.