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(Tintern Abbey from @kasia_ociepa_photographer)
Celebrate St David's Day 2024 in Monmouthshire on Friday 1st March with free entry to all of Cadw's sites. In Monmouthshire that's Chepstow Castle, Raglan Castle & Tintern Abbey. They're all close enough to visit in a day (sites are open 9.30am - 5pm) so it's a great chance to explore these historic Welsh sites, for free!
(Raglan Castle from @debbieyoungauthor)
If two castles and an abbey aren't enough, Monmouthshire also has many other Cadw sites that are always free to visit. These include the Marcher castles of Grosmont, Skenfrith & White Castle and the 2000 year old Roman town of Caerwent.
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Raglan Castle is an impressive fifteenth-century castle built by Sir William ap Thomas and his son William Herbert, remodelled by William Somerset, third earl of Worcester, 1549-89. Finest late Medieval fortress in Britain. On-site exhibitions.
Chepstow Castle is a must-visit as the oldest post-Roman stone castle in the UK (with the oldest castle doors in Europe!). It is a beautifully preserved masterpiece of medieval engineering, perched high above the Wye Valley like a history lesson in stone.
Cistercian abbey, founded in 1131 in the beautiful Wye valley village of Tintern. Remarkably complete abbey church rebuilt in the later thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, with extensive remains of cloister and associated monastic buildings.
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