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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:34:00

Two thousand years of Welsh history stand inside one set of walls in the middle of a capital city. Cardiff Castle on Castle Street occupies the site of four successive Roman forts, the first established around the 50s AD to control the Taff crossing, the last - a stone fortress of about 270 AD - still visible in the reconstructed walls that frame the site today. After the Norman Conquest, Robert Fitzhamon raised a motte-and-bailey within the Roman footprint around 1081, and the twelve-sided shel...