Where to Stay in Carmarthenshire
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Carmarthenshire is Wales’s largest county and one of its most varied and rewarding, a place of wide river estuaries, gentle farmland, dramatic upland landscapes and a coastline that forms part of one of the most celebrated stretches of shoreline in the British Isles. Known traditionally as the Garden of Wales for the fertility and beauty of its countryside, it is a county that offers an exceptional range of places to stay and a warmth of welcome that is deeply characteristic of this part of Wales.
The Tywi Valley, running through the heart of the county from the Brecon Beacons to the sea at Carmarthen Bay, is one of the most beautiful river valleys in Wales, its broad and fertile floor overlooked by a succession of castles, country houses and wooded hillsides that together create a landscape of pastoral perfection. Carreg Cennen Castle, perched on a dramatic limestone crag above the valley, is one of the most romantically situated castles in the whole of Wales and a sight that stops visitors in their tracks at every turn of the road.
The Pembrokeshire Coast National Park extends into the west of the county, bringing some of the finest coastal scenery in the British Isles to the beaches and headlands around Pendine and Laugharne. Laugharne itself is famous throughout the literary world as the home of Dylan Thomas, whose boathouse above the Taf estuary is now a place of pilgrimage for admirers of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets, and whose fictional town of Llareggub was drawn directly from the streets and characters of this quietly beautiful estuary town.
Carmarthen, the county town, lays claim to being the oldest town in Wales, with a history stretching back to the Roman period and a busy market that has served the surrounding farming community for centuries. Llandeilo, in the heart of the Tywi Valley, is one of the most attractive small towns in Wales, its independent shops, restaurants and proximity to some of the finest countryside in the county making it an increasingly popular base for visitors.
Whether you are looking for a coastal break on Carmarthen Bay, a walk in the Brecon Beacons foothills, a literary pilgrimage to Laugharne or a peaceful rural retreat in the Tywi Valley, Carmarthenshire is a county of genuine beauty and a deeply Welsh character that rewards every visit.
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