Machynlleth
Machynlleth ( [ ˌmaχənˈɬɛθ ] ) is a small town in County Powys, Welsh, or in traditional County Montgomeryshire . The city is a resort and center for sheep farming. The locals also like to call their city Mach.
Machynlleth has 2,200 inhabitants and is located in the Dovey Valley at the foot of a group of gently rolling hills. From here, both the Cadair Idris region and the Plynlimon area can be easily reached. During the uprising from 1400 to 1415 , Owain Glyndŵr was crowned Prince of Wales in Machynlleth in 1404 and designated the city next to Dolgellau and Harlech as the meeting place for the Welsh Parliament in a then free Wales. From this Machynlleth derives the claim to be the actual historical capital of Wales . Glyndŵr's Parliament House has been restored and expanded and is now part of a memorial.
An unmistakable accent in the cityscape of Machynlleth is a neo-Gothic clock tower from the Victorian era at the intersection of the two main streets . It was erected in place of the traditional market cross in 1873, as in so many Welsh and English villages , in this case in honor of the Marquis of Londonderry. The family inherited a country house in what is now owned by the city.
Since the 1970s, Machynlleth has become a magnet for the alternative scene. a. 1974 the Center for Alternative Technology and several companies dedicated to harnessing renewable energies . The Center for Alternative Technology includes the Quarry Shop, a small shop with organic products and the Quarry Cafe. A historic building is the house Llys Maldwyn, built in 1852, today the home of the photographer Mark Robert Davey . It was a school until 1892, after which it became a small city hospital.
In 1937 and 1981, the Welsh cultural festival Eisteddfod took place in town. About two kilometers northwest is Bron-Yr-Aur , a small summer house where Robert Plant and Jimmy Page wrote some songs for the album Led Zeppelin III .
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- FAH Bloemendal; Alan Hollingsworth: Wales in cameracolour ; Town & County Books Ltd, London 1978, ISBN 0-86364-000-1 , p. 42.
- HE Conrad: Wales ; Prestel Verlag, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-7913-0594-8 , p. 285.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ N , 3 ° 51 ′ W