Caernarfon Castle
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Port
Holyhead, Wales, United Kingdom
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Activity Level
Moderate
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Excursion Type
Local Sightseeing,All
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Wheelchair Accessible
No
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Starting At
$109.95
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Minimum Age
Information Not Currently Available
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Duration
Approximately 3½ Hours
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Meals Included
Meals not included
Your journey to Caernarfon will take you across the island of Anglesey to cross the Menai Straits via the imposing Britannia Bridge. The island of Anglesey was the last stronghold of the Druids during the Roman invasion of Britain and is well known for sites of historical and geological importance.
Your destination is Caernarfon -- one of the historic centers of Wales. The castle and town walls, built in 1283 by King Edward I, were successors to a Roman fortification raised more than a thousand years earlier. Edward's son became the first English Prince of Wales.
Your tour of Caernarfon Castle will reveal one of the most impressive of all Wales' castles. There are two main gatehouses, and although the Queen's Gate was never completed, the King's Gate has been cited as the supreme British example of the immense strength of medieval fortification.
Continue to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch -- a local village with the longest place name in Britain. Bring a wide-angle lens to take a photo of the sign on the railway platform that bears the village's name and doubles as an eye chart.