Tourism Attraction In Wales
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Pembroke Castle is a very popular tourism attraction in Wales. This website offers full details on the castle from its history to guided tours. You can also book the tours online with our form. But you do not need to be part of a guided tour to visit the castle, you are more than free to visit at any time on your own accord and walk around the castle and its grounds freely.
Visiting this tourism attraction in Wales and not using a guide can sometimes be better for some groups of people as they get to move around at their own pace, most of these people often by a guide book and take themselves off and visit different areas of the castle and stand admiring features of the castle and they read about it in the books and can often re visit areas that interested them more than others.
The history of the castle is what makes Pembroke such a popular tourism attraction in Wales, it stretches right back over nine centuries and you can find out all about the history of the castle right here on our website, below are details on this tourism attraction.
After the Normans had won at the battle of hastings the next place on their agenda was wales and some quarter of a century later Earl Roger built the first castle in Pembroke a basic structure made from timber and earth. Though it was only timber this castle withstood some vicious sieges from the Welsh marauders after this the castle became the base for the norman attacks on Wales.
The walls and towers of this tourism attraction in Wales were built around the time of the hundred year war and were built by the Valence family who held seat at the castle for over seventy years. The valence family also made the town more of a fortification by placing walls around the town and three main gates that any would be attackers would have to get through making it just about impregnable.
During the civil war this tourism attraction was on side of parliament and at this time most of Wales was royalist so the town had to have reinforcement soldiers taken there to help them protect the castle.
The Roundheads then went on to take other castles in the area, including Tenby, Haverfordwest and Carew.In 1648, when the Civil War was all but over, Pembroke's leaders unexpectedly changed sides. Cromwell himself came to Pembroke and took the castle after a seven-week siege. Pembroke's three leaders were found guilty of treason and Cromwell ordered the castle to be destroyed.