Getty Images The 800-year-old Criccieth Castle is a native Welsh fortress on a headland between two beaches overlooking Tremadog Bay in north Wales Cadw, the historic monuments agency for Wales ...
"In the earliest days of the Norman invasion the Marcher castles along Wales' eastern borders were primarily about containment, about keeping the Welsh out of England," he said. "However by the ...
They are also symbolic of the enormous effort which was necessary in order to uproot from Wales the rule of the Welsh. Associated with each castle was a borough - some, as at Conway and Caernarfon ...
The castle's beginnings can be traced to 1093 when Arnulf de Montgomery, an Anglo-Norman noble, erected a modest motte-and-bailey during the Norman conquest of Wales. Fast forward about a century ...
A hotel in an ancient Welsh castle has won two prestigious awards at a glitzy ceremony held in a European city. Roch Castle, located near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, scooped two prizes at the ...
Miss Zeta Jones is building the house for her parents Dai and Pat so she and her husband Michael Douglas and their son Dylan can stay with the family on their regular visits to Wales. But since ...
Home to more than 600 castles (more per square mile than any other country in the world), Wales consists of four regions: North Wales, South Wales, Mid Wales and West Wales, which offer distinct ...