Today, visitors can tour the castle, entering through a floating footbridge. Actually a Tudor manor house built on the site of an earlier medieval structure in South Wales, Llancaiach Fawr has ...
Why Wales Is the Place to Go for Medieval Castles Wales has no shortage of magnificent castles—from the impenetrable stronghold of Harlech Castle, to the fierce fortifications of Carnarvon ...
Imagine living in a city with a fairytale castle at its center where royalty, politics, and pop culture mingle. That’s what ...
Wales was formed from the Romano-British pushed into the west by the Saxons. Its tribal culture and language existed throughout the period.
Royal Commission investigator Louise Barker accepts a challenge from Professor Beverley Smith to try to find a lost medieval castle amid the gardens of Portmeirion.
Wales and Northern Ireland and at 3rd Level in Scotland. Not everyone in the 13th century lived in castles. Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn visit a much humbler home to see how medieval ...
Called Lalys by locals, a mispronunciation of "al-Aziz", he is credited with building a number of monasteries, castles, and churches, including Neath Abbey in south Wales, today the country’s ...
Castles were built in the marcher ... final nail in the coffin of the idea of an independent 'Wales' which had existed throughout the medieval period.