A WORLD Heritage Site will open its doors as heritage sites return after lockdown. Caernarfon Castle is among a number of Cadw locations across Wales that will welcome indoor visitors from Monday, May 17. The National Trust said it will also reopen Penrhyn Castle in Llandygai, Bangor over the coming weeks. Cadw, National Trust Cymru and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales confirmed the plans for a limited number of indoor museums, indoor areas of historical sites and exhibitions following First Minister Mark Drakeford s plans to move Wales to level two restrictions. Outdoor areas at the sites started to reopen to visitors from the end of March.
AN ELIZABETHAN townhouse in Conwy will open its doors as heritage sites return after lockdown. Plas Mawr, on Conwy Hight Street is among a number of historic locations that will welcome indoor visitors from Monday, May 17. Cadw, National Trust Cymru and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales confirmed the plans for a limited number of indoor museums, indoor areas of historical sites and exhibitions following First Minister Mark Drakeford s plans to move Wales to level two restrictions. Outdoor areas at the sites started to reopen to visitors from the end of March.
Caernarfon Castle. Picture: Cadw World Heritage Site Caernarfon Castle will also be opening to indoor visitors for the first time in months from Saturday, May 22. There is significant conservation work happening at the castle s Kings Gate to improve long term access to site, meaning that all visitors will receive a complementary guidebook to compensate for any disruption.
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Contributions by Shane D Allessandro is on display at the International Slavery Museum (Image: Gary William Smith)
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“I was looking at some of the fantastic animal books we have and I was going through the pages of the wonderful Theatre of Insects, or Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum to give it its true title . . . While looking through our copy I chanced upon a butterfly (a small tortoiseshell I think) next to its accompanying image. There is a striking similarity between the woodcut and butterfly, which of course was the intention so that the various species could be identified by the amateur insect enthusiast.”
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