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 ...

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.

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 the 300,000 inhabitants of Cardiff — the capital of Wales and just a short ...

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 ...

In celebration of St Dwynwen’s Day, Cadw, the Welsh Government’s historic environment service, is offering a unique gift to couples who get engaged at any of its monumental locations on this special ...

Their fiefdoms were like independent kingdoms whose rulers could, with impunity, hold courts, build castles and wage war. As the March would exist in some form for over 450 years, it became a major ...

Bovey Castle is the perfect destination for a Traitors-themed mini-break, offering the ideal mix of glamour, intrigue, and a ...

Over the next few months, the revolt spread around Wales. Attacks rained in on English settlements, manors and castles, and in the south of the country, a group calling themselves Plant Owain (the ...

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 ...