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Hotel pickup & dropoff Castles North Wales Tour - a two-day tour
Castles North Wales Tour - Three-day option
If three days are available for touring, we can include visiting castles such as Flint, Rhuddlan, Denbigh etc as an addition to our standard two-day tour.
FACT: Wales has more castles per head of population than anywhere else in the world, these ‘fortified’ buildings were not haphazardly constructed, there was a reason why they were designed and located where they are…… join the tour and find out more.
We can include visits to
- Caernarfon Castle
- Conwy Castle
- Beaumaris Castle
- Dolbadarn Castle
- Harlech Castle
- Segontium Roman Fort
- Fort Belan
- Din Lligwy Celtic site
- Holyhead Mountain Celtic settlement
- Gwydir Castle
- Bryn Celli Ddu
- Roman Fort at Holyhead
- Various battle sites
- Owain Glyndŵr story, last native Welshman to hold the title Prince of Wales
Some of the main sights
Roman occupation of Wales
The Roman occupation of Wales lasted for nearly 400 years and apart from visiting the main Roman fort of Segontium in Caernarfon, we will also visit many other sites such as the battle site for the capture of Anglesey and the slaughter of the Celtic druids.
Dolbadarn Castle
Built by a Welsh Prince to protect the valley, predates the English fortresses of the Edward 1st. Before the Conquest of Wales was completed in 1282, Wales consisted of a number of independent kingdoms, the most important being Gwynedd. Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, sometimes written as Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, also known as Llywelyn the Last, or, in Welsh, Llywelyn Ein Llyw Olaf, was Prince of Wales from 1258 until his death at Cilmeri in 1282
Segontium
Camp for up to a thousand soldiers, the main Roman fort in the north of Wales area. Remains of an auxiliary Roman fort, probably established in the late 70s AD and modified through to the late fourth century.
Caernarfon
A brute of a fortress. Caernarfon Castle’s pumped-up appearance is unashamedly muscle-bound and intimidating. Picking a fight with this massive structure would have been a daunting prospect. By throwing his weight around in stone, King Edward I created what is surely one of the most impressive of Wales’s castles. Worthy of World Heritage status no less.
Edward wasn’t one to miss an opportunity to tighten his grip even further on the native population. The birth of his son, the first English Prince of Wales, in the castle in 1284, was a perfect device to stamp his supremacy. In 1969, the investiture of the current Prince of Wales, HRH Prince Charles took place here.
Beaumaris
Aberlleiniog castle
Harlech Castle
'Men of Harlech.' The nation’s unofficial anthem, loved by rugby fans and regimental bands alike, is said to describe the siege which took place here during the War of the Roses, wherein a handful of men held out against a besieging army of thousands. Edward’s tried and tested ‘walls within walls’ model was put together in super-fast time between 1283 and 1295 by an army of nearly a thousand skilled craftsmen and labourers.
Criccieth Castle
Conwy Castle
Fort Belan
Notable for being the only purpose-built fortress of the American Revolution on this side of the Atlantic Ocean. This location is sure to astound and fascinate our guests, apart from the history and the fort itself, the scenery is fantastic.
Holyhead Mountain Celtic settlement
The Holyhead Mountain Hut Group is located along a southwest to the northeast level terrace of land towards the south-western end of the mountain. Although it is unclear how old the settlement is, with suggestions ranging from the Neolithic to the Dark Ages, it seems probable that much of it is of an Iron Age date but as the structures have been built at different periods it is possible that the local inhabitants were using the area for homesteads and farming over a much longer time span with only a handful of the buildings being in use at any one time.
The Roman Fort at Holyhead
The Roman Fort at Holyhead, known in the Welsh language as Caer Gybi, was one of a chain of installations designed to counter acts of piracy and raiding from Ireland. It is possible it operated in conjunction with the nearby fort of Segontium. Its original Latin name is unknown but it was probably constructed in the late third century and was effectively a fortified landing place. Stone ramparts enclosed three sides of the fort with the North and South Walls extending down to the waterfront where the warships of Classis Britannica would have been beached.
Bryn Celli Ddu
Impressive Neolithic chambered tomb, with partially restored entrance passage and mound, on the site of a former henge monument. Bryn Celli Ddu – the Mound in the Dark Grove – is probably the best-known prehistoric monument on Anglesey, and is one of the most evocative archaeological sites in Britain. Like other prehistoric tombs on Anglesey, it was constructed to protect and pay respect to the remains of the ancestors.
