This of course is just one of the many castles 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
This castle lies slap bang in the middle of a busy city and was first used by the Romans. The Normans then came and covered the original fort with earthen ramparts and constructed their own fortification on top of it all. The great thing is that over the next three centuries the castle was never stopped when it came to improvements. Many things happened during the 12th century including a stone keep and between the 13th and 14th a gatehouse and the black tower were both added.
1423 saw the Earl of Warwick add another tower to the west side of the caslte and when the Herbert family moved in they improved it for many generations. 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 of course how you will see the castle today.
Nowadays the castle is opened to many tourists and is open every single day of the year apart from Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
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.