BBC Countryfile Magazine

WINTERFEST IN THE MOUNTAINS

The town walls are thrilling. Crevices, turrets, gateways and 21 towers. Cold stone, still enclosing jammed-together streets, shops and homes.

You can circle the town by walking on top of the walls, and visit the stout and beastly castle with its murder-holes and machicolations. It was built between 1283 and 1287 by Edward I, who filled

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