CASTELL COCH ( Red Castle ) could have been the inspiration behind Walt Disney's fairy tale castle, but I think not
in this instance and far removed from the fabled Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland.
This is real in as much that it is a stone construction where the dreams of a victorian art architect, William Burges meet those of the richest man in the world and built a folly for John Crichton-Stuart the 3rd Marquess of Bute.
His works echoing those of the Pre-Raphelites and heralding those of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
A 19th century Gothic Revival castle, built on the remains of a 13thcentury fortification on a steep wooded hillside located at the mouth of theTaff Gauge,to the North of Cardiff in South Wales.
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