The Sacred Sites

On our pilgrimage, it would be impossible for us to see all the sacred sites in Wales, but we can make a good beginning by visiting the six cathedrals: St. Woolos, Llandaff, St. David's, Brecon, Bangor, and St. Asaph. These can be our major stopping places. We can then visit other, smaller but equally important sites on our travels or make detours where necessary to others, as equally important as the cathedrals though not as well known or as well-visited. Others such as Tintern Abbey are even more famous.

While they may not compare in size or magnificence to their English or continental counterparts, the six Welsh cathedrals make up in age and in history what they lack in architectural splendor, for they are situated on the most ancient religious sites in Britain. The cathedral was the place that usually housed the shrine of a saint and was thus a place of pilgrimage. It was the presence of the bishop's throne that made the cathedral the mother church of the diocese and that bestowed the title of city (Some Welsh cities, including St. David's and St. Asaph, would be considered as villages if we were to look only at numbers of inhabitants).