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Cardiff Castle- the History

This of course is just one of the many castles in Wales. This castle may not be the biggest or best but it is the most popular one in Wales simply because it makes its home in the city centre.

Cardiff Castle

This castle lies slap bang in the middle of a busy city and was first used by the Romans. The Normans then came and covered the original fort with earthen ramparts and constructed their own fortification on top of it all. during the course of the next few centuries the castle was always getting the odd improvements. Many things happened during the 12th century including a stone keep and between the 13th and 14th a gatehouse and the black tower were both added.

1423 saw the Earl of Warwick add another tower to the west side of the caslte and when the Herbert family moved in they improved it for many generations. However the 17th and 18th centuries saw the castle abandoned and it slowly fell into disrepair.

It was not lost alltogether as 1766 saw the year in which Lord Mountstuart took possession of the castle and slowly started to buld the place up again.

1869 saw William Burges take the castle into a major refurbishmen as we was given complete freedom on what to do with the place. This is how tourists see the castle today.

If of course you fancy going to the castle yourself there are very few days in which you are not allowed to look around the place which is always good.

There are so many things that you can see in the castle from the keep to the military museum so why not think about taking one of those family days out to the place. You could of course just take a family holidays UK to Cardiff to enjoy the place at your own leisure.