by Pembrokeshire gave us not only the only born protection in Great Britain in the broadest west of Wales, but also Stonehenge, Algebra and the Tudor dynasty. The last invasion of Great Britain took place here.
It is home to the smallest city of Great Britain, the only national national park of the country and the best port in Christianity.
According to Legend, St. David was born around 500AD in the middle of a stone circle on Pembrokeshire’s westernmost cliff, which is now known as St. David’s head, and at the moment of his birth a spring appeared to have healing properties.
The ruins of a small chapel, the David’s mother, stable, are dedicated to mark the place. It is a wild and beautiful place and one of the oldest Christian sites in Great Britain.
St. David died on March 1, 589AD – exactly 1,436 years ago – and is not buried far below the magnificent cathedral named after him. He founded a monastery there in the 6th century, so hidden and remote that it was overlooked by raging Vikings, and his shrine became a pilgrimage.
The Normans built a small chapel above the grave, but after the Pope explained that “two pilgrimages on St. Davids are one and three pilgrim car to one after Jerusalem, the shrine attracted so many pilgrims that a larger church was necessary and the construction of today’s St. David’s Cathedral began around 1176.
With its quiet location, which is hidden into a grassy trough on the edge of the smallest city of Great Britain and with its beautiful mauve and honey -colored wall work, which is sprinkled with lichen, this crooked, rough, rough -skin, which has built it, which it has built, is rated as many people ridiculous cathedral.
The chapel of St. David and St. Non is both in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and coasts 186 miles, including rough cliffs, sea stack, sandy beaches, wind whipped islands and a wealth of historical sites.
St. Davids is located north of the Landsker line, an old imaginary border between the Welsh-speaking natives in the north and the English-speaking areas, which were colonized by the Normans from England in the south.
About 20 miles north of the Landsker is Fishguard, a good -looking port city that grew up between Golden Goodwick Sands and the original fishing village full of colorful cottages, where Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor film Under milk wood 1971.
There is a sign above the door of the Royal Oak on the main square of Fishguard: “The last invasion of the British peace treaty was signed here in 1797.” However, a force of around 1,400 French soldiers landed on the coast north of Fishguard, who wanted to ferment a British revolution, were abolished by the Pembroke Yeomanry and a group of local women in red scarves and high hats that resembled an army of red blocks.
Against the Royal Oak in the town hall, the 100 -foot invasion of Tapestry, which is hand -woven by local women, tells the story, while a briskly two miles long walk to the north along the Clittops takes you to a memorial stone above the beach of Carreg y Watad, where the French landed.
The Preseli Hills, a country of Wildmoor and Rocky, are located southeast of Fishguard, which offer a spectacular view north to Snowdonia and across the sea to the Wicklow Mountains in Ireland.
The hills are plentiful of prehistoric sites, including the northern edge, Pentre Ifan, a megalithic burial chamber that was formed from a huge maze stone that rests on three Bluestone columns that were broken down from the nearby rocks by Carn Menyn. The columns consist of the same unique bluestone as that found in Stonehenge, which indicates that the Preseli hills were the source of the Stonehenge Bluestones.
The powerful Norman castles of the 12th century are south of the landscape of Pembroke and Haverfordwest, the district. The ruins of Haverfordwests Castle sit on a high comb with a view of the high street, one of the best in whale. It climbs steeply from the Cleddau River and is lined with shops and houses of all ages, including a fine Shire Hall from 1837.
Historical Pembroke, a pleasant city with narrow side streets with Elisabethan and Georgian houses that are behind unbroken medieval walls that are located under the mighty walls of Pembroke Castle.
Pembroke was built in wood in 1093, 100 years later in Stein in 1093 and an almost impregnable location on a rocky fountain, which is surrounded by water on three sides, one of the best preserved medieval castles in the UK. In 1170 the Earl of Pembroke Richard de Clare left the castle to start the Norman invasion of Ireland, while Harry Tudor, later Heinrich VII, was born in the castle, which then belonged to his uncle Jasper Tudor, on January 28, 1457.
28 years later in 1485, Henry returned from exile and landed in Mill Bay under the head of St. Ann, 15 miles west at the mouth of the Daugleddau estuary before Wales marched to Wales, around Richard III. To meet Bosworth Field in the Battle of Bosworth, where he won the Crawn and launched the Royal House of Tudor.
The island of Skokholm in three miles in front of St. Ann’s head is the first Gebr. The private life of the rabbitAbout the rabbits on the island, which is left of a Victorian rabbit farm that inspired Richard Adams. Water ship.
In the north there is Skomer, in which one of the largest British sea bird colonies from mainly puffiner, guillemots and razorbills are located. Both islands can be visited by Martin’s Haven Beach.
On the north coast of the Daugleddau mouth, which forms one of the largest natural ports in the world, Milford Haven is sitting, which is described by Nelson as “the best port in Christianity”.
Henry II, King John and Oliver Cromwell all sailed from here to Ireland, and at the end of the 18th century the port was developed as a royal shipyard to provide ships for Nelsons Marine by Sir William Hamilton, husband of Nelson’s lover Emma, who inherited the country from his first wife.
Nelson’s connection to the city is called back by the Lord Nelson Hotel to Hamilton Terrace, a clever series of Georgian houses with a view of the water that ends in the St. Katherine Church in which Sir William Hamilton is buried.
One built into the cliff face of St. Govan’s Head’s Tiny St. Govan’s Capel in the coast south of Milford Haven, a chapel from the 13th century, which is built in a cave, which is believed to be buried by the monk of the 6th century that it is buried as a cell under the altar of the chapel. This mysterious and magical place can be reached by falling over a number of stairs that – so that the legend is – never counts the same thing when climbing back.
The national park ends in the pretty coastal town of Tenby, of which the artist Augustus John, born there in 1878, said: “You can travel around the world, but you will not find any more beautiful anywhere.”
Historic Tenby is as well as golden beaches and pale-painted Victorian guest houses with a castle, the house of the 13th century from the 15th century, a unique 16th century house from the 15th century, a fortified Barbican goal house of five arches and the largest parish church, which in one. and invented the equals sign (=) in 1557.
Everything adds up to make the most beautiful district in Wales.
