Qualla: Caernarfon https://qualla.com/caernarfon en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caernarfon https://qualla.com/caernarfon Caernarfon: Introduction https://qualla.com/caernarfon/ Edward I built Caernarfon to hold Wales down. The walled town, the polygonal castle towers said to imitate the walls of Constantinople, the colour-banded masonry that Welsh stonemasons quarried for their English overlords - all of it was raised between 1283 and 1330 to make a permanent statement about who now ruled Gwynedd. Seven centuries later, you can stand on the Maes - the market square at the foot of the castle - on a Saturday morning and overhear nothing but Welsh in three directions. Caernarfon never agreed to be conquered. It simply rebuilt itself in Welsh around the symbols of English power.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/caernarfon-wp/gcky-caernarfon-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caernarfon: Layers Down to the Ordovices https://qualla.com/caernarfon/ Long before Edward, this stretch of the Menai Strait was already a contested boundary. The Celtic Ordovices farmed and fought along the Seiont valley until the Romans arrived around AD 78 and built the auxiliary fort of Segontium just south of the modern town. The Roman garrison ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/caernarfon-wp/gcky-caernarfon-layers-down-to-the-ordovices.mp3 0:06 2 full Caernarfon: The Welsh-Speaking Royal Town https://qualla.com/caernarfon/ Granted royal borough status by Queen Elizabeth II in 1963 and amended to Royal Town in 1974, Caernarfon today has a population just under 10,000 - small by English standards, substantial by north Welsh ones. According to the 2011 census, 85.8% of residents were born in Wales (on...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/caernarfon-wp/gcky-caernarfon-the-welsh-speaking-royal-town.mp3 0:06 3 full Caernarfon: The Investiture and the Bombs https://qualla.com/caernarfon/ On 1 July 1969, Caernarfon Castle hosted the investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales - a televised ceremony attended by the British royal family inside a thirteenth-century shell deliberately reframed as a stage set. The political reaction in Wales was sharp. Protests filled the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/y/caernarfon-wp/gcky-caernarfon-the-town-today.mp3 0:06 5 full Caernarfon: Where Mountains Meet the Sea https://qualla.com/caernarfon/ Geography is doing some of the cultural work. Caernarfon sits on the eastern shore of the Menai Strait, facing Anglesey across narrow water; Snowdonia (Eryri in Welsh) rises directly to the south-east, with the summit of Snowdon less than ten miles from the town centre as the cro...

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