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VALLEYS HERITAGE TOUR

Highlights
Castell Coch (The Red Castle), Brecon Market Town, Brecon Beacons National Park, Libanus Visitors' Centre & Caerphilly Castle (Wales' largest fortress)
 Staged
 Every Saturday & Monday
 Price
Adult £45.00GBP, Concession £40.00GBP Over 60s & Students ID required, Children under 16 years £20.00GBP (Great British Pound)  
 Inclusive
 Tour guide (female), Driver (male), Transport  and Admissions
 Exclusive
 Lunch & refreshments
 Times
 Start 9am/Return 5:30pm approx
 Start
 National Museum Cardiff - central location

Escorted guided tour and live commentary en route.....

Wales’ largest fortress, the 13th-century Caerphilly Castle, one of the greatest surviving medieval castles in Britain. With its massive gatehouses and water defences, its design heavily influenced the course of medieval architecture and is one of the truly great strongholds of medieval Europe. Working replicas of siege engines are on display. Guided tour of the castle.

The Brecon Beacons National Park is a jewel in the crown of the UK's protected landscapes.  It boasts some of the most spectacular upland formations in southern Britain, yet still remains one of the UK's best kept secrets. We travel along the mountain road through the village of Ystradfellte, descend into the head of the scenic Senni valley.  The tour delivers diverse landscapes from lush wooded valleys and gentle rolling hills to craggy mountains and imposing reservoirs, and grazing Welsh Black cattle, Welsh Mountain ponies and plenty of sheep.

Lunch stop at Libanus Visitors' Centre,  built on the ancient common of Mynydd Illtud, offering superb views over the common to the Beacons and Fforest Fawr, and Pen-y-Fan, the highest mountain in southern Britain. 

The historical market town of Brecon, positioned on the banks of the River Usk and confluence of the Rivers Honddu and Tarrell Brecon evokes its historical past in many ways. Grand Georgian architecture lies around nearly every corner of its narrow winding streets, its ancient cathedral dating back from Norman times, and home to the terminus of the Monmouth and Brecon Canal.

Castell Coch, (The Red Castle), the former hunting lodge of the Marquis of Bute, sited on a craggy limestone escarpment in the quaint village of Tongwynlais.  The Victorian architect William Burges was commissioned by the 3rd Marquis of Bute to re-create a castle from the earlier foundations of a medieval structure. Stone cobbled courtyard, exquisite wooded carvings cover the interior, and lavishly furnished rooms. Guided tour of the castle.  (Exterior castle tour only in January & February  2010).