With views of the city and surrounding area, the chateau must have been perfect lookout ever since it was built back in the 9th century. It expanded to its original size with the Plantagenet Kings of England, which was of interest to Nan who is reading Wolf Hall. Inside are royal lodgings, a restaurant and a building housing the famous Apocalypse Tapestry, the oldest medieval tapestry to have survived and incredibly impressive in its size and imagery.
We got to look out onto the city from the fortifications and to see the pretty blueish-black local slate rooftops that gave the city the name the "Black City."
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| The moat never held water, and has had held pretty gardens like these since the Revolution, along with kitchen gardens. |
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