• Castell Coch is located on the outskirts of Cardiff, with towers and looks like a fairy tale castle, two towers and a sharp turrets at peek of the towers.
  • While resting on ancient foundations, Castell Coch (Red Castle) is relatively modern, the by-product of a vivid Victorian imagination, assisted by untold wealth.
  • In North Cardiff, Castell Coch (Red Castle in English) sits in the rich Welsh hillside surrounded by towering trees.
  • Route 26 has hourly services direct from Cardiff to Caerphilly, stopping at Tongwynlais where Castell Coch is located.
  • When Robert gained additional land in Glamorgan, he pushed the Norman-Welsh border even further away from Cardiff. Castell Coch was most likely abandoned...
  • ...that this was also the period when Gilbert thoroughly rebuilt Castell Coch, which was to secure the area between the newly built Caerphilly and Cardiff.
  • Castell Coch, or the Red Castle, as you see it now, was built on medieval ruins and was designed by William Burges, who also remodelled Cardiff Castle.
  • Caerphilly Castle was built to control the new territory and Castell Coch—strategically located between Cardiff and Caerphilly—was reoccupied.
  • Castell Coch is a castle in the SXIX reconstructed by William Burges, the architect who designed the nearby Cardiff Castle on an earlier one from the middle ages.