Conwy Castle
I want to visit Conwy Castle, which is by any standards one of the great
fortresses of medieval Europe. Conwy is probably the most impressive of all the
Welsh castles. Conwy's eight massive towers and high curtain wall are very impressive.
I want to see a well-preserved wall,
surrounded to Conwy Castle and town, lending an additional sense of strength to
the site. I want to climb the highly defensible wall Edward built around the
town. Moreover the beauty of this section of the country rivals anything in
Britain. Approaching Conwy, the castle seems to suddenly rise out of the hills
where I want to scream aloud. Furthermore, I want to hang on the majestic old
suspension bridge connecting the castle with the main peninsula.
I want to jump like the spiderman on all the eight great towers and run like the
longlegs on connecting walls of Conwy
castle. I want to Journeying to the top of any of the towers and see the spectacular
views of the town, surrounding coastline and countryside like the King Edward I.
not only that I want to ride on flocks of sheep and roam the nearby hills.
"Anyone looking at Conwy Castle for the first time will
be impressed first and foremost by the unity and compactness of so great a mass
of building, with its eight almost identical towers, four on the north and four
on the south, pinning it to the rock on which it stands. Especially striking is
the long northern front, where the tower's equidistant spacing divides the wall
surface into three exactly similar sections, each pierced by a similar pair of
arrowloops, and each rising to a common battlement line."
Conwy is by any standards one of the great fortresses of
medieval Europe. First impressions are of tremendous military strength, a
dominating position and a unity and compactness of design. The eight mighty
towers seem to spring from the very rock which dictated the castle's eventual
layout. As with Edward I's other great castles in north Wales, the design and
building operations were in the hands of James of St. George, who eventually held the title of Master of the Kings Works
in Wales. At Conwy, however, he somehow created a building which, more than any
other, demonstrates his brilliant understanding of military architecture.
No visit to Conwy is complete without a circuit of the town
walls. They are one of the finest and most complete sets in Europe, over 3/4
mile in length with 21 towers and three original gateways.
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