{"id":172,"date":"2019-11-10T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site151.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/11\/10\/castillo-raglan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-10T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:26:24","slug":"castillo-raglan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/2019\/11\/10\/castillo-raglan\/","title":{"rendered":"Raglan Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_169\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-image-169 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-Raglan-Castle-01.jpg\" alt=\"Castillo Raglan \" width=\"635\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-Raglan-Castle-01.jpg 635w, http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-Raglan-Castle-01-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castillo Raglan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Raglan Castle (Raglan, Monmountshire County) \u2013 unlike many of the castles in Wales (which were built during Edward I\u2019s reign), this one (located 31 miles \/ 41 minutes north of Cardiff) was built during the mid-15th century (some years before Columbus\u2019 discovery of America). It was remodeled during the Tudor period. Militarily, this castle saw action when it held off Oliver Cromwell\u2019s forces for 13 weeks during one of the last sieges of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, Raglan Castle\u2019s intricate towers distinguish it from others within Wales, attracting a steady stream of tourists. It\u2019s also no surprise that a number of big-budget historical dramas have been filmed here (such as BBC\u2019s TV series \u201cMerlin\u201d). Admission: \u00a34.50 (adult), \u00a33.40 (seniors\/students\/children under 16 years), \u00a313.50 (family \u2013 two adults and all children under 16). Hours vary according to the time of year. Check the Welsh government website for details: http:\/\/cadw.wales.gov.uk<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raglan Castle (Raglan, Monmountshire County) \u2013 unlike many of the castles in Wales (which were built during Edward I\u2019s reign), this one (located 31 miles \/ 41 minutes north of Cardiff) was built during the mid-15th century (some years before Columbus\u2019 discovery of America). It was remodeled during the Tudor period. Militarily, this castle saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-museums-monuments-other-sites","category-things-to-see-and-do","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}