#Caernarfon Castle

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

My former life...

Caernarfon, Gwynedd, Wales (flickr)

Caernarfon Castle

#FLICKR #EUROPE #UK #WALES #GWYNEDD #CAERNARFON CASTLE #1994

[wezg]

Review: Queens of the Crusades – by Alison Weir

I had previously read Alison Weir’s most excellent book specifically on Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine many years ago so the author was familiar to me. I chanced upon this title in my local library (Caldicot) and thought I’d give it a go. It covers the lives of several British Queens, or rather the historical period in England during which they lived. The period is one of the most interesting…

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#1215 #Alienor of Provence #Alison Weir #Aquitaine #barons #battle #Berengeria of Navarre #British Empire #British Hostory #British Queens #Brittany #Caernarfon #Caernarfon Castle #Caldicot #cardiff #Chepstow #consanguinity #Constantinople #constitution #Continental Europe #Cross #dominions #Edward I #Ekleanor of Castile #Eleanor of Aquitaine #English Queens #europe #European Royal #france #French

[ultimecias]

caernarfon castle today 🏰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the weather was surprisingly nice for october!

#caernarfon castle #welsh castles #cymru #wales

[pillarboxstudio]

#philately #postage stamp #ephemera #vintage stamps #1988 #united kingdom #uk stamps #caernarfon #caernarfon castle #snail mail

[rowynnellis]

I’m just a fancy little goblin out for a walks ✨

#Ynys Môn #anglesey #caernarfon #castle #wales #Welsh

[fuckitandmovetobritain]

Great Britain: Caernarfon, Winchester, Brighton, Lincoln, Allerford, Loch Torridon, Bath, Lyme Regis, Berwick Upon Tweed

#england #scotland #wales #great britain #united kingdom #caernarfon #winchester #brighton #lincoln #allerford #loch torridon #bath #lyme regis #berwick upon tweed #berwick #architecture #landscapes #castle architecture #castle #uk travel #travel #travel photography #uk cities #uk towns #uk places #uk villages #uk #street #street photography #europe

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Castle of Caernarfon or Carnarvon built in 1283 by King Edward I of England - Gwynedd, Northwest Wales

#castle caernarfon #carnarvon #edward l of england #gwynedd #northwest #wales #english #england #united kindom #ingles #inglaterra #reino unido #europe #europa

[concretenfells]

Caernarfon, Wales

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[dlyarchitecture]

#King’s Gate Caernarfon Castle / Buttress

[angiethewitch]

I am absolutely disgusted to learn that crown owns our castles and the profits are sent to Westminster. Wales is struggling, our economy is struggling, our people are struggling, our health services are struggling, and that money could go to the betterment of our lives - instead it goes to England.

despite the fact we maintain the castles and land, we don't own them. they are in OUR country. ownership should belong to us, the people who built them. we maintain them. we work in them. theyre ours and we should be able to use the profits generated by them to help welsh people, not allow the money be funnelled into the monarchy.

the fact the crown owns so much of wales is such an outdated and medieval concept and has no place in modern society.

petition here:

please sign. I am disgusted.

#angie talks #wales #cymru #cymru am byth #annibyniaeth cymru #welsh independence

[spottinghistory]

Historic site of the week: Caernarfon Castle

Caernarfon Castle in Gwynedd, Wales, is recognised around the world as one of the greatest buildings of the Middle Ages. It was a motte-and-bailey castle from the late 11th century until 1283 when King Edward I of England began to replace it with the current stone structure.

This fortress-palace on the banks of the River Seiont is grouped with Edward I’s other castles at Conwy, Beaumaris and Harlech as a World Heritage Site. But for sheer scale and architectural drama Caernarfon stands alone.

#Caernarfon #wales #castle #spottinghistory #gwynedd

[xpllorer]

caernarfon castle

#caernarfon #castle #windows #seaside #sea #beach #north wales #wales

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

fave cadw site(s)?

What a SPECTACULAR ask omg okay

In no particular order:

Caerleon Roman Fortress. Local to where I grew up, so a special place in my heart anyway given that I've been there so often, but it's also incredibly well preserved and presented given that the modern town of Caerleon is on top. Plus, the mythical seat of King Arthur, so that's fun. My sister and I spent a lot of time pretending to be lions in the amphitheatre and mauling each other

Caerwent. Similar reasons! Less local, but I did Classics as a teen and it's an excellent Roman town ruin for a school trip, PLUS it was the cantonal capital of the Silures - the Celtic tribe that lived in my region

Bryn Celli Ddu. Iron Age burial mound on Anglesey. Every time I've been I've bored the tits off of whoever I've been there with explaining the site, which just goes to show I need better friends

Caernarfon Castle and Town Walls. This is technically two sites but fuck it. I absolutely adore Caernarfon. I am politically not supposed to because Gogs, but it's just wonderful. You should all go. Borrow my car.

Castell Coch. Local again, I've been loads, but it's batshit. Built by a rich lunatic who looked around Wales, the Castle Capitol of Europe, and went "Where are the fairytale turrets" because he profoundly didn't understand the function of a castle. He also built the Animal Wall in Bute Park in Cardiff

Tretower Court, I've only been once but it was GREAT

Caerphilly Castle. Second biggest in Europe! Leaning tower! Fab.

#asks #WALES! #closed for cleaning on mondays

[philibetexcerpts]

On 1 July 1969, the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales took place at Caernarfon Castle in Wales.

#that head piece was such an eyesore but she made it look nice #e&p #prince charles #wales 1969

[schweizercomics]

As of this week, I'm back from the Welsh mountains of Snowdonia, where my family and I went three weeks ago for a harp festival in which my daughter was participating. We spent most of our time in the castle city of Caernarfon, where the festival took place, and stayed across the street from a really big, really lovely old church at the base of Twthill, “Wales’s smallest mountain,” site of a Yorkist victory during the War of the Roses.

One of the days that we were there, I took a bus to nearby Bedgellert, ostensibly named for a noble but unjustly murdered 13th century dog, and set out to reach the top of Dinas Emrys, which lay outside the town and near a defunct Victorian copper mine (which I also crawled around in).

(outside the mines, before I started walking)

I wandered through a lot of countryside, woods, and sheep farms. The standard Welsh joke is "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes," and that was the case - ten minutes heavy wind and rain, ten minutes sunshine, off and on for about four hours.

In the next pic, you can see the hillock of Dinas Emrys from before it crests upwards...

...and here it is from the top. The tree sits just outside the tower ruins (the pit to its immediate left).

I've never had such a beautiful walk to such a satisfying end. Not only was the peak gorgeous, but it also had the bonus of being a historical/mythical destination right up my alley.

The top of Dinas Emrys is where the oldest English/British histories (the 9th century Historia Brittonum and Geoffrey of Monmouth's famous History of British Kings* place the tower of Vortigern (and subsequently Ambrosius, in many versions the older brother and predecessor of Uther Pendragon), which in the legends had to be rebuilt numerous times because of the red and white Dragons that fought at the pool below it and which were taken by a (then young) Merlin as an omen for Welsh/Briton victory over eastern invaders.

*My pal Benito Cereno is currently translating Geoffrey's book from Latin, with some commentary, on his Patreon, and you can read his translation of the story here.

The sun was finally (consistently) shining by the time I got to the top, so I took off my shoes and socks to dry them, lit my pipe, set up my easel, and did some sketches of both the tower ruins and, once I climbed down to it, the hidden pool below.

I was quite happy with the travel easel I'd built and carried for the last eight or nine miles, until the heavy wind took it off the side of the mountain and broke it. It's fixable, but not without tools that I didn't have in the mountains, so that was that.

I haven't finished most of the Dinas Emrys sketches - like a lot of my travel stuff, I pencil (and sometimes ink), throw a couple of spots of color, and take photos to use as reference, so that I can do more pieces on a limited traveling schedule. But I'm looking forward to finishing the drawings of the pool especially - it felt like I was in a fairy tale down there, and I hope I can convey it (although the leafless, windswept [I think] hawthorn trees, reaching toward the pool like hands, aren't like any trees I've ever tried to draw before this trip, and trying to get them right is part of the reason I ain't yet done).

The trip back down was less idyllic, partially because going down over wet rocks is, while less strenuous than going up, more demanding of care and attention, so I had to watch my feet more than the surroundings, especially having taken a fall up by the ruins. But I'd count the trek as one of the genuine high points of my life. I was elated and in awe for hours at a stretch, and absolutely overcome with the beauty of it. And, while the rain might've been unpleasant and chilly at times, it meant that the sun fought through water and clouds to create the most incredible vistas, and the rain meant that the colors of the mosses and grasses were at their most vivid.

I'll have castle drawings down the line, too, and some others from around the harbor town, and I can't stress how much we enjoyed our time in Wales.

I did take a few days to go up to Leeds, do a signing at Traveling Man, and visit the  Royal Armouries a few times to do drawings. One of the folks who came to the signing, Dr. Tzouriadis, is a currator at the armouries and was kind enough to give me a tour on my last day in Leeds, including getting to see the research library, which I now know to make an appointment for visiting the next time I'm there (I likewise learned about the British Library reading rooms and research collection, and got a card for it for the next time I'm in London).

Dr. Tzouriadis was incredibly generous with his expertise, and I learned or clarified a lot of really neat things that'll influence how I draw swords and armor in the future. And I've had some practice this trip thanks to the incredible collections with which I had a chance to spend some time.

Each day over the month of May, I'll be posting one drawing of a sword (or other edged weapon) from either the Royal Armouries, the Tower armory, or the British Museum. It's jumping the gun a bit, but here's a sneak preview of the first one:

They're toned with a single color (indigo) so that I can collect them into a book in black and white and make both its manufacture and selling cost a bit less than I could were I to do color - it also cuts down on the time spent making them. I'll likely put them up for sale each day as I post them, likely for the same price (50 plus shipping?), as a means by which to recoup some of the (substantial) cost of the trip.

While in Leeds I also got to meet cartoonist James Lawrence, have dinner with cartoonist John Allison, and briefly stop by OK COMICS in the arcade, which was an incredible store with an amazing selection of books.

After Wales we went to London (Penny's first time), and Penny was unfortunately ill for a couple of days, so I spent time at the museum doing sketches, and visiting the library treasures gallery. We saw a couple of musicals that Penny was keen on seeing, went to Charles Dickens's house, visited the Tower, ate some cheap meat pie with jellied eels in Greenwich, toured Westminster and St Pauls (I went to a Eucharist service at the latter, as well as one in Wales in a lovely little church built into the castle wall more than seven hundred years ago), and a handful of other things, including seeing the Tempest at the Globe Theater - my first time seeing a play at the Globe, and my first time seeing the Tempest performed.

I also got to visit a whole store devoted to Tove Jansson's MOOMIN, where I got a mug and a biography of Jansson, and it was next door to the Benjamin Pollock's Paper Theater shop. I went to London disappointed that the Pollock paper theater museum had closed only months before after decades of operation, and didn't know that there was an (unaffiliated since the 80s) shop, so stumbling upon it was a real treat (stumbling is how I like to do cities - I walked crisscrossed the town between the Euston and the river and found some great shops, including a lot of bookstores).

Now that I'm home, I'm very keen to get back to work. I'll be doing Patreon commissions, coloring a book for my friend and frequent collaborator Kyle Starks, and just settling back into being able to work, which I missed an awful lot despite the wonderful trip.

#Snowdonia #Wales #North Wales #Arthuriana

[royally-obsessed]

on this day in 1969

Charles's Investiture

The investiture of Prince Charles, Prince of Wales took place in Caernarfon Castle, north Wales, on 1 July 1969. The ceremony formally presented the title of Prince of Wales to the 20-year-old Charles, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II.

#on this day #queen elizabeth ii #king charles iii #prince philip #duke of edinburgh #princess anne #princess margaret #queen mother