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Cardiff Castle: a building representing 1900 years of history. First it was a Roman fort. When the Normans 30 _____ centuries later they built their castle on the site of the old Roman fort. The Castle was strengthened and improved 31 _____ many years. Its colourful and lavish interiors continually surprise and delight visitors who enter a grim, fighting castle to find themselves 32 _____ by exquisite wood carving and sculpture, and frescoes that tell of the castle's long history.
Snowdonia: The Welsh call Snowdonia the 'Eagles' Nesting Place', and even though eagles 33 _____ longer fly here the grandeur of the name is still 34 _____ for a region that is scenically one of the glories of Britain. The Snowdonia National Park is a region of wild mountains, high passes and craggy peaks. The valleys sparkle with woodfringed lakes and cascading waterfalls. At the centre of the range is Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales (1085m).
Dinorwig: the largest pumped-storage power station in Europe. It is built in the heart of a mountain to 35 _____ electricity by pumping water between two lakes. At all stages of the design and construction it was appreciated that the need to 36 _____ the exceptionally fine environment of the Snowdonia Park was 37 _____ paramount importance. The project took ten years and it was let in 1975.
The views from the windows of the train are magnificent over countryside set in the midst of the Snowdonia National Park.
Caernarfon: an ancient town with a magnificently preserved castle which dominates it. The son of Edward I, who became the first English Prince of Wales, was born there in 1284. In 1969 Prince Charles was invested there as Prince of Wales. Many episodes in the long history of revolt against English rule took place in the castle, and in the Civil War (1642-1646) it was one of Cromwell's strongholds.
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