Conwy Castle

Conwy Castle ( also Conway Castle) is a ruined medieval, built between 1283 and 1287 Castle in the county of Gwynedd on the banks of the estuary of the River Conwy, which dominates the entrance to the Welsh town of Conwy.

In 1986 the castle was included in the UNESCO list of cultural monuments.

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The Castle is the first of nine castles that Edward I had erected to secure his dominion in Wales. They were all from his builder James of St. George, at that time the leading architect of defenses constructed. It served as a replacement of the 1263 destroyed by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Castle Deganwy Castle Henry III. of England.

Conwy Castle is a castle spur of about 90 by 30 meters in circumference and thus one of the largest castles in Wales. It is situated on a hill between the Conwy and one of its tributaries. It is of irregular elongated shape because the walls follow the terrain. The still fully intact city walls is of eight nearly identical round defensive towers interrupted by twelve feet in diameter, are laid out as four in the north and four in the south. The courtyard is divided by a wall into two sections one after the other.

The plant resembles that of Caernarfon Castle. It differs from the others designed by the same architect castles Harlech Castle and Beaumaris Castle, where an outer almost square courtyard surrounding an inner concentric. In this type of kennel was waived in Conwy because of the terrain. A kennel can be found in Conwy only at the two short sections of the curtain wall as Torzwinger outside the main gate and the postern at the other end.