to add an item to your Itinerary basket.
(A frosty morning at Chepstow Castle, by Allen Lloyd)
This St. David's Day 2025 (Saturday 1st March) you can enjoy free entry to all of Monmouthshire's Cadw sites. So that's free entry to Chepstow Castle (easily accessed just across the Severn Bridge), Raglan Castle in the heart of Monmouthshire, and Tintern Abbey in the beautiful Wye Valley. Each site is only 15-30 minutes drive from each other, so make a day of it and visit all three Cadw sites for St. David's Day (each site open 09:30am - 5:00pm).
There's also free entry to Caerleon Roman Fortress Baths in Newport, Blaenavon Ironworks in Torfaen and Tretower Court in Powys, all neighbouring Cadw sites which are easy to reach from Monmouthshire.
(Raglan Castle at dawn by @fbjmavric)
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 'three 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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