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Tintern is a beautiful place, and Tintern Abbey is particularly so - plus it has an amazingly rich history. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey ht
by samizdis 6y ago
Tintern is a beautiful place, and Tintern Abbey is particularly so - plus it has an amazingly rich history.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey
Edited to add - Nice set of photos at the bottom of this page:
https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/tintern-abbey/ https://medievalheritage.eu/en/main-page/heritage/wales/tint...
- hcrisp 6y agoA friend and I visited Wales during college and ran across Tintern Abbey quite by accident. We rented a car in London, and embarked on a drive from there to Oxford. We found a place to stay somewhere between Oxford and Tintern (not sure exactly where). Early the next day we got back on the road, and suddenly we beheld emerging out of the gloomy mist a majestic but decrepit building obviously of centuries-old origin. We inquired and learned its name: Tintern Abbey. The pictures at the bottom of the medievalheritage.eu link are what I remember seeing.
- billfruit 6y agoAlso wonderful Wordsworth poem , perhaps his best. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-a-few-miles-above-tintern-abbey-on-revisiting-the-banks-of-the-wye-during-a-tour-july-13-1798 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45527/lines-composed-...