Caernarfon, situated between the picturesque Menai Straits and Mount Snowdon is a busy Welsh market town and a major tourist centre. Renowned for the World Heritage Site of Caernarfon Castle, the most famous of Wales' castles, and the investiture in 1969 of Prince Charles as the present Prince of Wales.
Indeed the town is dominated by King Edward I's impressive medieval fortress and town walls, built as part of the iron ring of castles to secure his English foothold in Wales after the death of the last Prince of Wales.