King Edward's castles and city walls at Gwynedd
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UNESCO world heritage 
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Caernarfon Castle |
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| National territory: |
 United Kingdom
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| Type: | Culture |
| Criteria : | i, iii, iv |
| Reference No .: | 374 |
| UNESCO region : | Europe and North America |
| History of enrollment | |
| Enrollment: | 1986 (session 10) |
The Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (English: Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd ) are since 1986 UNESCO World Heritage Site . These include four castles that King Edward built in Gwynedd , North Wales , in the 13th century during his castle-building program to secure the conquest of Wales :
as well as the city walls of Conwy and Caernarfon .
Web links
- UNESCO website (English)
Heritage: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral (1986) | Ironbridge Gorgewith The Iron Bridge (1986) | Studley Royal Park with the ruins of Fountains Abbey (1986) | Stonehenge, Avebury, and Associated Monuments of Megalithic Culture (1986) | King Edward's castles and city walls in Gwynedd (1986) | Blenheim Palace (1987) | Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey with St Margaret's Church (1987) | Downtown Bath (1987) | Borders of the Roman Empire : Hadrian's Wall (1987) and Antonine Wall (2008) | Tower of London (1988) | Cathedral , St Augustine's Abbey and St Martin's Church in Canterbury (1988) | Edinburgh Old and New Town (1995) | Maritime Greenwich (1997) | The Heart of Neolithic Orkney (1999) | Old town of Saint George's (Bermuda) with fortifications (2000) | Blaenavon industrial landscape (2000) | New Lanark Industrial Model Estate (2001) | Saltaire industrial village (2001) | Derwent Valley Mills (2001) | Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew (2003) | Liverpool - Maritime Trade City (2004, R ) | Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape (2006) | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal (2009) | Forth Bridge (2015) | Gorham Cave (2016) | Lake District (2017) | Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory (2019)
Natural Heritage: Giant's Causeway and Coast (1986) | Henderson (Pitcairn Islands) (1988) | Gough Island and Inaccessible (1995) | Dorset and East Devon Coast (2001)
Cultural / Natural Heritage: St. Kilda (Scotland) (1986)