{"id":187,"date":"2019-11-10T16:37:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site151.blogs.americavip.com\/2019\/11\/10\/castillo-de-san-quintin\/"},"modified":"2019-11-10T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T16:38:09","slug":"castillo-de-san-quintin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/2019\/11\/10\/castillo-de-san-quintin\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Quentin\u2019s Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_183\" style=\"width: 645px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183\" class=\"wp-image-183 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-St-Quentins-Castle-01.jpg\" alt=\"Castillo de San Quint\u00edn \" width=\"635\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-St-Quentins-Castle-01.jpg 635w, http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/152\/files\/sites\/152\/2019\/11\/Wales-VIP-St-Quentins-Castle-01-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castillo de San Quint\u00edn<\/p><\/div>\n<p>St. Quentin\u2019s Castle (Llanblethian, Castle Hill, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan) \u2013 located just a half hour (13 miles) west of Cardiff, this castle was said to have been first built sometime during the 12th century (before many of Wales\u2019 other castles were constructed). This courtyard castle doesn\u2019t look completed because it wasn\u2019t \u2013 local royalty who owned it during the early 1300s (Earl Gilbert de Clare) had some stonework done to it, but was killed in the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, before the castle that currently stands was completed. It was reportedly in ruins as early as the 1700s. Free admission. Hours: 10 am \u2013 4 pm daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Quentin\u2019s Castle (Llanblethian, Castle Hill, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan) \u2013 located just a half hour (13 miles) west of Cardiff, this castle was said to have been first built sometime during the 12th century (before many of Wales\u2019 other castles were constructed). This courtyard castle doesn\u2019t look completed because it wasn\u2019t \u2013 local royalty [&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-187","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\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/contents.walesvip.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}