Harlech Castle

Harlech Castle is in a breathtaking location, with the ocean on one side and flanked by the dramatic Snowdonia Mountain Range. It is an unmissable castle, a fact reinforced by its status as a World Heritage Inscribed site.

Spectacularly sited Harlech Castle seems to grow naturally from the rock on which it is perched. Like an all seeing sentinel, it gazes out across land and sea, keeping a watchful eye over Snowdonia. The English monarch Edward I built Harlech in the late 13th century to fulfil this very role.

The Castle was one of the most formidable of Edward's 'iron ring' of fortresses designed to contain the Welsh in their mountain fastness.