Conwy Castle

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Thanks to restored spiral staircases in its great towers you can walk a complete circuit around the battlements of Conwy Castle. We highly recommend it. This is one of the most magnificent medieval fortresses in Europe.
In the distance rise the craggy mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia) and spread out below you are the harbour and narrow streets of Conwy – still protected by an unbroken 1,400-yard (1.3km) ring of town walls.
It’s enough to take the breath away. Especially when you consider that King Edward I and his architect Master James of St George built both castle and walls in a barely believable four years between 1283 and 1287.

Diolch i’r grisiau tro a adferwyd yn ei dyrau mawr, gallwch gerdded cylch cyflawn o gwmpas bylchfuriau Castell Conwy. Argymhellwn hynny’n fawr. Hon yw un o’r caerau canoloesol mwyaf mawreddog yn Ewrop.
Yn y pellter cwyd mynyddoedd clegyrog Eryri ac oddi tanoch mae harbwr a strydoedd cul Conwy yn ymestyn o’ch blaenau - wedi’u gwarchod o hyd gan 1,400 o lathenni (1.3km) o gylch di-dor o furiau trefol.
Mae’n ddigon i fynd â’ch gwynt. Yn enwedig o ystyried bod Brenin Edward I a’i bensaer James o San Siŵr wedi adeiladu’r castell a’r waliau mewn pedair blynedd anhygoel rhwng 1283 a 1287.

* From Llandudno Junction train station tale the bus - 200m/220yards, route No 5, Llandudno-Conwy-Bangor/Caernarfon.