Cardiff castle- The History
December 14, 2009 by 247 Travel Guides
Filed under Travel Tips
This is just one of the many castles that are in Wales. This one has to be the most popular one out there as many hundreds of people visit it every single year.
Cardiff Castle
The castle itself as many people will know is right in the middle of a very big city and it was first used by the Romans. The Normas stepped in to take control and they covered the original fort with ramparts and their own defences. Over the next three or so centuries the castle was always being improved on. The 12th century saw only one realy improvement and that was a stone keep whereas between the 13th and 14th a gatehouse and the black tower were both added.
In 1423 the Earl of Warwick added another tower to the west side of the castle and then the Herbert family continued to improve it near the end of the 16th century. The castle fell into a very bad state of disrepair in the 17th and 18th centuries as it was left.
1766 saw the year in which Lord Mountstuart gained possession of the huge castle and started to rebuild the place and passed the work right the way down to his grandson.
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.
