Caerphilly Castle

If you have spare three or four hours and fancy visiting some new historical place nearby Cardiff, Caerphilly Castle is a wise choice. We were lucky to have very nice weather, because most of the time in Castle, you have to walk outside and you do not have many places to hide in case of bad weather. (It seems to me, that they do not have many “indoor castles” here in Wales.)

When you walk around the castle, there is not much information about it, half of our visit, we were just wondering when it was built and who lived there. After some time, we found a room with huge table tablet, where you can play with touch screen and old documents all day long, and later also one hall with pictures introducing the history of castle.

Out of all materials explaining about the castle, we probably enjoyed most a short animated movie that was screened in one of the small towers. I think the movie would use some warning before, for more sensitive kids. Even though it was animated, it showed a lot of cruelty and a couple of times, the red colour splashed all over the three walls (depicting blood of soldiers or something like that).

Some practical information:

Caerphilly Castle is the biggest castle in Wales and second biggest castle in Britain and there is one nice tower which out leans famous tower in Pisa, so you can make the same classic tourist photo supporting it.

It took us about 30 minutes to get there by train from Penarth. Return train ticket cost around 4 pounds per person (we travelled in a group of four people). Entrance fee to the castle is £ 4.75 for adults and £3.60 is student ticket.

Enough said, let´s have a look at some pictures of castle:

Some wooden guy supporting the leaning tower.

The Shire, I guess. Frodo, is that you?

With two flags of Wales.

Birds and stuff.

Caerphilly Caste was built in the second half of the 13th century. Still a nice place to visit.

Inside the castle walls.

Lovely houses nearby the castle.